Philanthropy that changes lives

Paul S. May and Frank Stein—longtime partners in their former hotel and motel supply business and real estate ventures—have made exceptional financial commitments to California Pacific via a combination of outright and planned gifts. They are part of a new breed of donors interested in supporting both philanthropy and medical innovation. By specifically targeting serious diseases using the latest medical technologies, innovators like Stein and May are helping California Pacific Medical Center keep cutting edge medicine a top priority.

The Frank Stein and Paul S. May Center
for Low Vision Rehabilitation

Distinguished Donors Make Second Multi-Million Endowment to CPMC

On January 15, 2009, California Pacific Medical Center Foundation and CPMC's Ophthalmology Department honored the generosity of Frank Stein and Paul S. May for establishing an endowment to name and support in perpetuity The Frank Stein and Paul S. May Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation.

A Story of Philanthropy

Stein’s interest in low vision began years ago when he discovered he had glaucoma. If left untreated, glaucoma can cause irreversible damage unless proper medications are prescribed in time.

May also shares a personal history with low vision. “My mother developed severe glaucoma when I was nine years old. There wasn’t much available to her in the way of tools she could use to compensate for her low vision. Fortunately, it is different today.”

Director of the Center and leading authority on low vision rehabilitation, Donald Fletcher, M.D., and Chairman of Ophthalmology Susan Day, M.D., lead the Center in its mission to teach people with low vision how to maximize their sight to live full, productive lives.

The Paul S. May and Frank Stein Interventional Endoscopy Center

On March 20, 2008, The Paul S. May and Frank Stein Interventional Endoscopy Center opened on the Pacific Campus of CPMC. A state-of-the-art facility, the Center is one of the latest additions to the Medical Center’s already world-class medical programs.

Stein’s mother and sister passed away from pancreatic cancer which made the donors even more determined to tackle the disease head on. They met with the Center’s Director, Kenneth Binmoeller, M.D., and the rest is history.

Their altruistic spirit and extraordinary vision established an unprecedented level of support of the complex digestive disease program at California Pacific. This new Center houses a dedicated team of acclaimed endoscopists, researchers, surgeons and clinicians and allows the Medical Center’s Interventional Endoscopy Program to set itself apart from any other in the nation.


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