Saratoga Hospital Receives $3 Million Donation for Aging and Wellness Center

Saratoga Hospital has received a $3 million donation from the Robert and Lisa Moser Family Foundation for a new center focused on centralizing senior care in the hospital. 

The new center, named the Moser Center for Successful Aging and Wellness, was announced during a press conference on Sept. 29. 

In addition to the center, Saratoga Hospital also announced the start of a new $22 million capital fundraising campaign, of which close to $9 million has already been raised. This money will fund not just the center, but a new parking garage located directly across the street from the emergency room entrance. 

“The Moser Center for Successful Aging and Wellness has long been our vision, a place where older adults and their families can receive coordinated care, guidance and support to help them remain healthy, active and independent,” said Jill VanKuren, President and CEO of Saratoga Hospital. “We are incredibly grateful to the Robert and Lisa Moser Family Foundation for its generosity and belief in this vision. This gift brings us an important step closer to making it a reality.”

The new center will be located at 59A Myrtle Street and will consolidate multiple practices and services from across the city into one building. These include primary care, rehabilitation, memory care, nutrition and wellness, community partnerships, caregiver support, behavioral health, and specialties such as cardiology.

The garage will consist of a three-level parking garage with 391 parking spaces. Construction is expected to being sometime between Dec. 2026 and Dec. 2027 with construction of the center to come after construction of the garage. 

In order to construct the two buildings, the hospital has requested modification to their Professional Planned Unit Development (PUD). Under the changes to the PUD, parcels located on Myrtle Street would be added, and the PUD would be modified to allow the construction of the facility. 

On a city website answering questions about the PUD, the hospital said that it currently pays around $750,000 on rent for the specialties that would be consolidated in the new center. The new center would reduce costs for the hospital by eliminating said rental costs and also reduce utility costs. Another benefit of the center would be better coordination between the specialties and the hospital itself. 

Once construction of the center is complete, specialties will be relocated as existing leases expire, the website said. 

The campaign is expected to run through 2029. 

Aidan Clark contributed to this story.