Baptist Health Grand Gala at the Miami Beach Convention Center
MIAMI, FL – March 21, 2019 – On Saturday March 16, 2019, the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) was the proud host of Baptist Health South Florida’s Grand Gala. The event was the first gala to use the MBCC’s glamorous Grand Ballroom following the completion of the venue’s $620 million-dollar expansion and renovation.
Presented by title sponsor MEDNAX Health Solutions Partner, The Baptist Health South Florida Grand Gala was an extraordinary success, raising more than $6.5 million, with proceeds uniquely benefiting the Baptist Health cause of each gala-goer’s choice – including Miami Cancer Institute, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, or any of the healthcare organization’s 10 hospitals and clinical, community or educational programs from the Florida Keys to Palm Beach.
Attended by more than 2,000 guests, it was the largest social and fundraising event in the leading healthcare organization’s history.
The exquisite affair was attended by notable guests including co-chairs, Baptist Health President & CEO Brian E. Keeley and Suzanne Keeley, Ph.D., and Lani Kahn Drody, host committee chair. Headline entertainment was provided by Michael Feinstein, multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated singer and pianist.
Guests danced the night away in the Grand Ballroom, a glamorous new addition to the newly reimagined Miami Beach Convention Center, with its own dedicated entrance and concierge services. A live and silent auction featured rare experiences and professionally curated items, with auction experiences donated by American Airlines, Crystal Cruises, Domaine Souviou, Regent Seven Seas, British Airways, Tiffany & Co. and St. Regis.
Generous sponsors of The Grand Gala include Title Sponsor MEDNAX Health Solutions Partner; Diamond Sponsors Envision Physician Services, FPL and KIDZ Medical Services; Gold Sponsors Bank of America, CC Homes, Humana, Leon Medical Centers, Navigant, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Watsco; the Official Sports Team Partner, The Miami HEAT; Honorary Chairs the Carricarte Family, Gonzalez Gorrin Family, Susan Kahn, Michele and Howard Kessler, the Korn Rico-Toro Family and The John and Margaret A. Krupa Foundation; Bronze Sponsors American Airlines, Bacardi, Cerner, The Collection, Conviva Care Solutions, Emergent Physicians of South Florida, Florida National University and Insightec.
The Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) is the centerpiece to Miami Beach’s meetings and conventions industry. Re-imagined following a $620-million-dollar renovation, the expanded MBCC includes a new 60,000 square-foot Grand Ballroom, almost 500,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, an expanded Grand Lobby, pre-function areas that are bathed in natural light, up to 84 breakout rooms, almost 2,100 miles of cabling to support all IT communications, $7.1 million dollars’ worth of art curated by the City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places program, a new six-acre public green space that can serve as incremental event space, and much, much more.