LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Bellarmine University received a $3.6 million donations that will go toward nursing, allied health and more.
The estate of Dr. Allan and Donna Lansing has now given the university in Louisville more than $10 million in donations. According to a news release Wednesday, the newest gift is earmarked for nursing and allied health, the men’s basketball and baseball programs, the Clinical Recitation Initiative for Student Enrichment (RISE) program and the Bellarmine Fund.
Dr. Allan Lansing was an internationally-renowned heart surgeon and longtime Bellarmine trustee.Â
"Bellarmine and Bellarmine students were always important to our parents," Michele Lansing Flowers, the Lansings' daughter and executor of the estate, said in a news release. "Our father was especially partial to the Nursing Program, because he said he could never have done it without the nurses who cared for his patients 24/7. They were an integral part of patients’ recovery, their emotional and physical support system. He may have fixed his patients’ hearts, but the nurses made them whole again."
After moving to Louisville from Canada in 1963, the Lansings became involved with Bellarmine in the early 1980s.
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