"He always put that Burn Center at Saint Barnabas above everything else," said Marty Appel the Yankees' former public relations director.
In 2011, the Joseph M. Still Burn Center was recognized as a participant in the Georgia Trauma Network as a designated Burn Center.
In addition, the Burn Center was verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons.
It is the only "verified" Burn Center in Georgia, as well as the only Trauma program in the state verified by the American College of Surgeons.
UMC's Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center is the only Burn Center in the region.
Proceeds will benefit the hospital's Burn Center and Burn Camp (for children with burns).
He was taken immediately to the central Burn Center at Massachusetts General in critical condition.
The Burn Center of Philippine General Hospital is named after him.
The owner, Juliet Gordon, was injured in the blaze and taken to the Burn Center of the New York Weill Cornell Center.
The Burn Center at Saint Barnabas was established in 1977.