Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham (BID Needham) this week announced a landmark $15 million gift from Barbara Levine, Bruce Levine and family, and Ina and Lewis Heafitz to advance the hospital’s planned campus expansion along Chestnut Street. The landmark commitment, which includes both financial support and the contribution of two properties essential to the project will help support BID Needham’s growth and the extension of its Transforming Health Care Here campaign.

“This is a significant investment in the future of healthcare in our community,” said John Fogarty, president of BID Needham. “We are profoundly grateful to the Levine and Heafitz families for their vision, leadership and confidence in BID Needham. Their generosity is helping turn years of planning and possibility into a reality that will benefit patients, families and our community for generations to come.”

Current plans center on a new outpatient-focused facility along Chestnut Street that would expand capacity and bring more services — including surgery, primary care, women’s health, behavioral health and digestive health — closer to home. In recognition of the families’ extraordinary support, the new building will be named in honor of the Levine and Heafitz families.

Don and Bruce Levine and Lew Heafitz were longtime business partners through Equity Industrial Partners, and both families have been generous supporters of the hospital, including the Levine Family Department of Cardiology and the Donald A. Levine Memorial Endowment Fund for Workforce Enrichment. Bruce Levine also serves on the BID Needham Board of Trustees.

The new commitment builds on the $20 million gift made by Valerie Trotman and her family in 2024, the largest in BID Needham’s history. The Trotman family’s support helped launch the $40 million Transforming Health Care Here campaign and accelerated the hospital’s plans for campus transformation.