On Jun. 7, 2017, the W. M. Keck Foundation gave $10 million to support a University of Southern California (USC) Health Sciences Campus facility critical to advanced patient care, expanding upon the foundation’s longstanding and transformative support to the university.

The generous gift names the Willametta Keck Day Healthcare Center, one of USC’s largest outpatient facilities, which houses Keck Medicine of USC clinics that cover almost all medical disciplines, from primary care to surgical specialties. With the gift, the foundation adds to the $150 million it provided in 2011 to launch the Keck Medicine Initiative — part of the Campaign for USC — and to advance USC’s innovative medical research and education.

Reaching back to 1999, when it named the Keck School of Medicine of USC through a $110 million gift, the W. M. Keck Foundation and its president have dramatically accelerated the progress of USC’s medical enterprise. The Los Angeles-based foundation and its chairman and CEO Robert A. Day have remained stalwart supporters of the university.

The foundation’s gift honors one of the foundation’s founders, Willametta Keck Day, who died in 1985. She was the daughter of William Myron Keck and Alice B. Cominski Keck. William Myron Keck founded the Superior Oil Co. in 1921 and created the W. M. Keck Foundation three decades later. One of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations, the foundation supports outstanding science, engineering and medical research and undergraduate education.

Willametta Keck Day’s name now graces what had been known as Healthcare Center 2, a modern, 5-story medical building in the heart of the USC Health Sciences Campus northeast of downtown Los Angeles.