Serving on Philadelphia's County Board of Guardians of the Poor and the Board of the Jewish Hospital, Lucien Moss saw first-hand the difficulties that incurable Jewish patients faced. Deeply moved by the plight of Jewish tuberculosis victims, Moss chose to make tuberculosis patients and the chronically ill the beneficiaries of his estate.
Lucien Moss left his entire estate to the Jewish Hospital to build a facility on its grounds — The Lucien Moss Home for Incurables of the Jewish Faith.
Moss believed that the sick who could not be cured required and deserved help as much as those who might fully recover. Choosing to endow an institution that would help people live with their illnesses put him far ahead of the medical mainstream of his time. A century later, it is clear that Moss' decision made him a visionary.
Portrait of Lucien Moss
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