PATTI LABELLE’S BOLD NEW LEGACY

For LaBelle, now 81, this project is not a retirement victory lap nor a celebrity spotlight moment—it is the heart of the legacy she wants to leave.

“Not the high notes. Not the applause,” she said.
“Lives saved. That’s the legacy I want when I’m gone.”

With the opening of the LaBelle Sanctuary Medical Center, Patti LaBelle didn’t simply expand her résumé—she expanded the nation’s imagination. She proved that compassion can be engineered, funded, and built brick by brick.

And in doing so, she offered something far rarer than fame or charity.