Toast to Your Health Wine Auction
Save the date: Saturday, November 7, 2026
The 2026 Toast to your Health Wine Auction will support the University of Rochester’s historic expansion of Strong Memorial Hospital—its largest capital project ever. This project, which will impact the more than 2.6 million people that Strong serves, reflects a commitment to building next-generation spaces that support learning, discovery, and healing as part of For Ever Better: The Campaign for the University of Rochester.
This major investment in the future of healthcare for the Greater Rochester region will add more than 650,000 square feet of new clinical space, anchored by a nine-story patient pavilion with more than 100 private inpatient rooms and new space for advanced cardiovascular treatments and future operating suites. It will also include a major expansion of the Emergency Department, which originally was built to accommodate 66,000 visits each year and now sees more than 110,000 annually. The expansion will more than triple the size of Strong’s Emergency Department, adding more than 200 examination, treatment, and observation stations and increasing capacity to serve 130,000 visits per year. It will also expand psychiatric emergency services to better support pediatric and adult patients and families across the region. When complete, Strong Memorial Hospital will be among the nation’s largest hospitals, with 940 beds. With community support, Strong Memorial Hospital will create a physical environment that matches its exceptional clinical care and medical expertise.
Join us in making a difference now—and for years to come—in the health and well-being of people of all ages in our community.
New this year! In addition to purchasing tickets for the event, guests are also required to register to bid in order to receive auction access. Benefits include: early access to items, easy check out night of, and more!
Interested in attending? Don’t wait. Seating is limited!
Register for bidding
– Click the button below to register to bid by October 31.
– Click the Get Started button at the top right of the page to create your personal bidding account.
– Once completed, you will receive a text message with your personal bidding link along with information as to when bidding will open.
For instructions and a short video on how to register to bid, click here.
THANK YOU!
Your generosity helped us raise $2,051,000 at this year’s Toast To Your Health Wine Auction in support of the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Transplant Institute. Thank you!
Together, we are revolutionizing care and saving lives. Patients who come to The Transplant Institute are often facing end-stage organ failure and untreatable cancers. These are patients who have been told there are no options left. Thanks to supporters like you, we are able to expand access to organ transplantation and offer a second chance at life.
Thank you to Danny and Paula Wegman for the remarkable leadership, as well as Sherwood Deutsch and Michael Misch, auction chairs, Drs. Joshua Weitz and Lesley Loss, and our committee chairs, Sam Guerrieri, Anthony Gugino, Patrick Cunningham, and Bob Duffy, as well as all the members of our Toast To Your Health Wine Auction Committee.
About the event
Learn more and view photos and videos from past wine auctions.
Silent and live auctions
Wine, travel, food, and other adventures are waiting for your bid.
Finding community and eliminating disparities
“We have to start by identifying those with greater needs or who have faced a disproportionate cancer burden for decades,” says Paula Cupertino, PhD. As associate director of Wilmot’s new Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, Cupertino is working with the community to identify research gaps and open clinical trials that will reduce cancer incidence in our region.
