The Sands family and Constellation Brands have pledged a $4 million donation to support construction of a new Intensive Care Unit at F.F.Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua.
UR Medicine/Thompson Health says the Sands family gift is leading off a capital campaign to raise $11 million for the project.
Thompson Health President Michael Stapleton says the project will take the ICU from seven to 12 beds, staffed with full-time doctors specially trained to care for critical care patients. The new unit will eliminate the need to transfer so many patients to Rochester hospitals each year.