Stories of Generosity

Below, you will find stories from some of our dedicated Mount Sinai Legacy Society donors about what inspired their planned gifts and creating their legacies to advance the future of medicine.

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Honoring Mount Sinai Through Charitable Gift Annuities

In 2006, Raffi Kutnerian was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a relatively rare cancer of the bone marrow. He immediately started and has continued treatment under the care of Dr. Sundar Jagannath, a renowned expert in the research and treatment of multiple myeloma.

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A Gift in Honor of Great Care

Denise Reiss has received excellent care and kindness from the doctors and staff at Mount Sinai not once, but twice. Today, she and her husband, Mike, show their appreciation by giving back.

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A Bequest Gift to Mount Sinai’s School of Nursing Reflects a Family Legacy of Support

Carol Phillips Green’s life reflected a deep respect for nursing, which is why her will included a bequest for the Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.

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Showing Support for Mount Sinai Through Charitable Gift Annuities

Chaim Freiberg recently retired to Florida, but he resided in New York for almost 50 years and continues to support the Mount Sinai Health System with an ongoing series of charitable gift annuities (CGAs). He appreciates the many benefits that CGAs provide.

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Dr. and Mrs. Aufses Receive Income for Life from Recent Gift to Mount Sinai

Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD, and his wife, Mrs. Harriet W. Aufses, have added a charitable gift annuity—which pays them income for life—to the many philanthropic gifts they have already made to the the Mount Sinai Health System.

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Elaine Marinoff Good and Her Family Leave a Legacy to Mount Sinai

Elaine Marinoff Good and her children never forgot the care and support she received from her surgeon, Dr. Randy Steinhagen, when she needed colon surgery years ago. After her death in 2018, her children arranged for a significant bequest to bestow a legacy for their mother Elaine at Mount Sinai.

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Dr. J. Louis Heller and His Wife Lydia Leave a Legacy to New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai

Dr. J. Louis Heller founded the anesthesiology department at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) in 1952 and served as Chief of the department for 40 years until 1992. Dr. Heller’s dedication during his extraordinary career touched the lives of countless patients, families, students, residents, and colleagues.

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Aufses Family Makes Legacy Gift Through IRA to Establish Endowed Scholarship for Veterans at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The Aufses family has a long history of service and support at Mount Sinai. Arthur H. Aufses, Jr, MD, served as chair of the Department of Surgery for 22 years and is considered to be a true Mount Sinai Giant.

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