MarinHealth Launches the Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute, Marking a New Era in Cardiovascular Care for the North Bay

GREENBRAE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 30, 2026--

MarinHealth today announced the official launch of the Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute, recognizing the transformational generosity and enduring legacy of the late Bill Haynes and Reta Haynes, whose vision and philanthropy helped shape one of the North Bay's premier cardiovascular programs.

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The naming of the Institute celebrates the Haynes family's longstanding commitment to advancing heart care and reflects MarinHealth's continued investment in innovation, clinical excellence, and expanding access to world-class cardiovascular care throughout the North Bay.

The announcement follows a special reception held June 29 at MarinHealth Medical Center, where physicians, caregivers, staff, community leaders, members of the Board of Directors, and the Haynes family gathered to celebrate the Institute's history, recognize the Haynes family’s enduring legacy, and look toward the future of cardiovascular care.

Today, the Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute stands among the region's leading cardiovascular programs, providing patients throughout Marin, Sonoma, Napa and neighboring communities with access to nationally recognized physicians, advanced technology, innovative treatments and coordinated, multidisciplinary care—close to home.

"World-class healthcare is built through visionary leadership, extraordinary caregivers, and a community that believes in investing in its future," said David G. Klein, MD, MBA, CEO of MarinHealth. "Bill and Reta Haynes shared that vision. Their generosity helped lay the foundation for the remarkable program we have today, and their legacy will continue to inspire our physicians and caregivers as we advance cardiac care for generations to come."

Over the past four decades, MarinHealth has steadily expanded its cardiovascular capabilities, evolving into one of the North Bay's premier heart and vascular institutes.

The program traces its roots to the 1980s with the opening of the hospital's first cardiac catheterization laboratory and cardiac surgery program. In 1993, MarinHealth established its Atherosclerosis Management Program, demonstrating an early commitment to preventive cardiovascular care. The Institute continued its evolution with the opening of the electrophysiology laboratory in the early 2000s.

A defining milestone came in 2009, when Bill and Reta Haynes established the Haynes Cardiovascular Institute in honor of renowned cardiologist Dr. David Sperling. Their philanthropic investment accelerated the growth of cardiovascular services and helped position MarinHealth as a destination for advanced heart care in the North Bay.

Since then, MarinHealth has continued to invest in transformative cardiovascular programs and technologies, including the construction of the modern Oak Pavilion, the recruitment of dedicated heart failure specialists, the launch of its Structural Heart Program, the opening of a state-of-the-art Hybrid Operating Room, and the creation of a specialized Women's Heart Health Program.

Today, the Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute offers comprehensive cardiovascular services across virtually every aspect of heart and vascular care, including:

Later this year, the Institute will further expand its commitment to lifelong heart health with the launch of an enhanced Cardiac Rehabilitation Program featuring the internationally recognized Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation curriculum. The program will combine medically supervised exercise, heart-healthy nutrition education and stress management counseling to help patients reduce future cardiovascular risk, improve recovery, and adopt lifelong healthy habits.

"Our commitment extends far beyond treating heart disease," Dr. Klein said. "We are equally committed to preventing it, helping patients recover, and supporting them throughout every stage of their heart health journey. The Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute reflects that comprehensive vision."

Throughout its history, MarinHealth's cardiovascular program has been defined not only by advanced technology but by collaboration among physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, rehabilitation specialists, technologists and caregivers working together to deliver exceptional outcomes for patients.

The Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute builds upon that tradition while positioning MarinHealth for continued growth in cardiovascular innovation, physician recruitment, research, education and patient care.

"As we celebrate this milestone, we are also looking ahead," Dr. Klein added. "The naming of the Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute is more than recognition of an extraordinary family. It is a statement about our future. Together with our physicians, caregivers, staff and community partners, we will continue advancing innovation, expanding access, and ensuring patients throughout the North Bay can receive world-class cardiovascular care close to home."

About the Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute

The Haynes Heart & Vascular Institute at MarinHealth provides comprehensive cardiovascular care through a multidisciplinary team of nationally recognized physicians and specialists. Services include preventive cardiology, women's heart health, heart rhythm care, structural heart interventions, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, sports cardiology, advanced cardiac imaging, heart failure management and cardiac rehabilitation. The Institute combines innovative technology, evidence-based medicine and personalized care to deliver exceptional outcomes while keeping patients close to the people and communities they love.

About MarinHealth

MarinHealth is an integrated healthcare enterprise with deep roots in the North Bay. With a world-class physician and clinical team, an ever-expanding network of clinics, a new state-of-the-art hospital, and an amazing team, the MarinHealth team stops at nothing to help patients achieve their best health. MarinHealth is comprised of MarinHealth Medical Center, a 327-bed hospital located in the heart of Marin since 1952, the MarinHealth Medical Network with 65+ primary care and specialty clinics located in Marin, Sonoma, and Napa counties, and the MarinHealth Foundation. A long-time partnership with UCSF Health expands MarinHealth’s world-class capabilities and its portfolio of services to serve more of our North Bay community in new and better ways. For more information, visit MyMarinHealth.org.

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HONOLULU (AP) — Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. adorned with flower lei from Hawaii residents who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join him on a pivotal Civil Rights march went on public display Tuesday in the state Capitol in Honolulu.

The Selma-to-Montgomery marches galvanized passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which did away with most barriers such as poll taxes and other forms of voter discrimination targeting Black Americans in the Deep South.

A delegation of five people brought dozens of flower lei with them from Hawaii to Alabama in March 1965. Images of King wearing lei, garlands that are synonymous with Hawaiian culture, have been previously published -- but most of the photos displayed in Hawaii’s new exhibit have never been seen before. Some photos have subtle variations, while others include figures who may have been deemed unimportant at the time. The exhibit runs through July 7.

One of the lei-bearers was Charles Campbell, a high school teacher and chairman of the Hawaii Civil Rights Conference, who a March 20, 1965 article in The Honolulu Advertiser quoted as saying: "Selma has the capability of becoming a real sore that could affect the entire nation.”

King was photographed wearing lei about two weeks after the event known as Bloody Sunday when state troopers violently attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.

The photos were taken by Civil Rights photographer Matt Herron, whose widow donated them to Hawaii's Department of Accounting and General Services for the state's archives.

After the photos were unveiled, Steven Springel stared at a photo of his mother, Nona Ferdon, who was a divorced mother of two children and a graduate student when she traveled to Selma.

Springel remembers he was just about to turn 7 and only realized as an adult how important her trip was. Growing up in Hawaii, “we never experienced segregation or racial inequality,” he said of his and his sister’s childhood. Ferdon died in 2021.

The exhibit, part of Hawaii's programming to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, is a reminder people from the Aloha State participated in an important event in history, said Keith Regan, who oversees the department as the state's comptroller and presided over the photo unveiling as acting governor while Gov. Josh Green is out of state.

The small delegation traveled thousands of miles “to be a part of the Civil Rights movement, to show ‘aloha’ to the world that Hawaii was there holding hands with our fellow brothers and sisters to ensure equality and justice were heard throughout the nation,” he said.

The Hawaii members also wore lei during first day of the 50-mile (80.46-kilometer) march. Mothers of Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu strung together fragrant plumeria plucked from church grounds to assemble the lei.

Giving lei, a word that is both singular and plural in the Hawaiian language, continues to be a way to share the “aloha” spirit. People in Hawaii give and receive lei for all kinds of reasons, including to celebrate birthdays and promotions, or to show appreciation or recognition.

Tomi Knaefler, who had traveled with the delegation as a reporter with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, planned to attend Tuesday's news conference. But at 96 years old, she wasn't feeling up to it, said her daughter, Pamela MacDonald, who did attend.

MacDonald said she was 14 when her mother went on the assignment, “the one that she holds dearest to her heart."

The exhibit comes at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2026 term, which included a ruling gutting the remaining piece of the Voting Rights Act, setting off a wave of partisan gerrymandering in states in the South and endangering generations of gains in Black political representation.

This version corrects that the number of people in the Hawaii delegation was five, not four.

Acting Hawaiʻi Lieutenant Governor Keith Regan, State Archivist Adam Jansen, and Steven Springel join community partners and invited guests for a group photo at the opening of a historic civil rights photography exhibit at the Hawaii State Capitol, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Steven Springel holds a photograph of his mother, Nona Springel Ferdon, a member of Hawaii's delegation to the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, during the opening of a Martin Luther King Jr. photo exhibit at the Hawaii State Capitol, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)