Brooks Rehabilitation has donated its 60,000 square foot Brooks Health and Fitness Center to the YMCA of Florida's First Coast. The donation, worth over $16 million and the largest donation ever made to the First Coast YMCA, provides the basis for an exciting expansion of Brooks and YMCA programs and services throughout the community.

In order to have the greatest impact on the health and wellness of the broader community, it was determined that a partnership with the YMCA and its existing network of facilities and programs would best accomplish this goal. This gift is part of Brooks Community Health strategy to focus on the community at large providing broad access to programs and services that contribute to the health of the community and prevent disabilities. This follows in the tracks of other major donations made by Brooks Rehabilitation.

Brooks and the YMCA will strive to build a coalition of local partners and healthcare providers to collaborate on an ambitious effort to improve the health of our community through healthy living and weight reduction programs. Brooks and the YMCA have a goal to serve more than 10,000 residents with clinically proven and outcome-based programs within three years, many of whom may not otherwise have access to wellness services.

Please click here to learn more about Brooks Family YMCA or click here to visit the YMCA of Florida's First Coast website.