Since the June 2019 opening of the Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Building at UVM Medical Center, countless grateful patients and families have expressed their appreciation through letters, emails and calls. Similar expressions of thanks have been received by the families and businesses who created a visible legacy of their commitment to our community and our hospital by naming spaces in the Miller Building with their gifts.

Across the board, the private rooms, dedicated workstations, technical features and modern amenities in the Miller Building have transformed care experiences for patients, families, providers and staff and enabled us to help more people who need us. Philanthropy made construction of the Miller Building possible and as we embrace the complex and ever-evolving needs of today’s patients and look to the future, philanthropy continues to play a vital role.

We asked Gregg and Beth Beldock, longtime University of Vermont Medical Center donors who named a patient room on Miller 5, about the impact of that gift.

"Gregg and I have received texts, photos and calls from beloved friends whose family members were receiving treatment while resting in the Beldock room on the oncology floor of the Miller wing. Those pictures and ‘thank you’s’ live forever in our hearts, indelibly etched. They are more than enough thanks for our contributions. We are grateful to UVM Medical Center and to the Miller Family for providing us those lasting memories of the friends we love and the friends we have lost. If in some way our charitable contributions provide comfort to families so painfully affected... we need to do more and will." - Beth Beldock

To help shape the future of health care through philanthropy, contact Manon O’Connor, Manon.Oconnor@uvmhealth.org, 802-734-0711 (mobile).