June 16, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
How much: $13-million over two years
Who got it: Father Martin’s Ashley, an alcoholism and drug-addiction treatment center in Havre de Grace, Md.
Who gave it: The Viragh Foundation, the philanthropy established by Albert P. (Skip) Viragh, a businessman who died in 2003
Where the money will go: To build Skip’s Hall for Integrated Treatment, which will treat people who have multiple health problems and addictions. “People have increasingly more complex cases, mental-health issues, pain-recovery issues, medical issues,” says Father Mark Hushen, chief executive of Father Martin’s Ashley. “We’ll have an interdisciplinary approach to provide individualized treatment.”
Impact of the grant: Father Hushen says it’s rare that substance-abuse centers get such a large private grant. “So many other health issues seem to get a lot of attention, breast cancer, for instance,” he says. “Addiction treatment has not had that kind of support.”
