Munk Foundation donates $100M for cardiovascular centre bearing gold baron’s name
TORONTO — The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation has donated an additional $100 million to the Toronto cardiac centre bearing the Barrick Gold founder’s name — the largest single charitable contribution ever to a Canadian hospital.
The donation, announced Tuesday in Toronto, will bring the foundation’s support of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and the University Health Network where it is housed to more than $175 million since 1993.
Most of the money will be used to develop a digital cardiovascular health platform — a digitized compilation of health information from patients, ranging from blood-test and imaging results to genetic sequencing.
The centre has partnered with the Vector Institute, a Toronto-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence, to develop the platform.