Four generations of the Fainbarg/Chase family, ranging in age from under 10 to over 90, attended the March dedication of the Steven Fainbarg Atrium at the Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living. The donation, in memory of Allan and Sandy Fainbarg’s son who passed away in 2024, supports the center’s Promotores outreach program, providing community health workers the ability to facilitate access to services for underserved nearby residents.
It is the most recent of the Fainbarg Family Foundation’s numerous significant gifts to Hoag over the decades, encompassing facilities, technology, cancer care, cardiology, and more. Today, Allan and Sandy’s commitment continues with their daughter, Nancy Chase, and her husband, Irving, who also serves on the Hoag Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors.
“The Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living is really what touches our heart,” said Nancy. “It serves the underserved, and that’s what we’re all about,” Irv concurred. Known for regularly attending events such as the Hoag Summer Fest alongside their children and grandchildren, the Chases are carrying on the Fainbarg tradition of supporting Hoag.
“We are trying to pass on our philanthropic ways to them,” Nancy said of her children and grandchildren.
Philanthropy is “just sort of innate,” added Irv. “The best teaching is role modeling by example.”
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