Messina donates $2.25m to South Shore Hospital

Braintree real estate entrepreneur Francis X. Messina donated $2.25 million to South Shore Hospital of South Weymouth.

The hospital said it is the largest single gift it has received, and boosts the total of its current capital campaign to $17.5 million. The campaign aims to raise $22 million by December 2008.

F.X. Messina Enterprises of Braintree is a real estate development and management firm. The gift will enable the hospital to invest in new equipment for newborns and women with high-risk pregnancies; emergency department equipment for trauma victims; and cardiovascular care.
(By Jeffrey Krasner, Globe staff)