| " A Moreland Hills couple with a mutual love of nature donated $2.8 million to University Hospitals' Case Medical Center to create a healing garden for cancer patients and their families. " " "When you are sitting in a chemo chair with an IV in your arm, it's nice to look out and see something beautiful," Cindy Schneider said. " " The Schneiders are making the donation in memory of Robert's parents, Albert and Mary Schneider, who both died of cancer. " " The indoor and outdoor gardens represent a small but significant slice of UH's future cancer hospital, a $200 million project announced a year ago that the hospital system hopes to complete by 2009. " " The largest chunk of the gardens will be in the northeast corner of the facility, where a solarium as well as an outdoor garden are planned. But Mother Nature will be evident throughout the 300,000-square-foot hospital, which will face Euclid Avenue. " " The gardens will provide a place for meditation, exercise, private discussion and solitude, the hospital said in a release. " " "This garden has been a dream of this couple since they got involved with the hospital," said Dr. Stanton Gerson, director of the Case Medical Center's Ireland Cancer Center. He said the gardens have been incorporated into the design of the hospital, which will join together oncology services and disciplines now spread throughout the sprawling system. " " Bob Schneider, the
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