Alex Coolman
NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- Glendale Adventist Medical Center was the
recipient of a $2.5-million gift in late 2000, a donation made by a
former Eagle Rock resident who was once a patient at the center.
Aeola O'Harn, the hospital's benefactor, died in 1999 after moving to
Missouri. She came to Glendale Adventist in 1995 for cardiac care and was
treated by Dr. Hugo Riffel-Dalinger.
In a gesture of appreciation for the treatment she received, O'Harn
left $2.5 million of her estate to the hospital's Heart and Vascular
Center.
Chris Murray, president of Glendale Adventist Medical Center's
foundation, said the money would serve both to save lives and to "improve
the quality of health in the community where [O'Harn] spent many years of
her life."
A spokeswoman for the medical center said Monday that specific details
for the use of the money were not yet available.
O'Harn ran a printing firm in Atwater Village before retiring.
Riffel-Dalinger remembered her as a "a caring and compassionate woman."
