BOSTON-Former Boston Bruins star Cam Neely’s foundation has given $7 million to Tufts-New England Medical Center, giving a boost to a financially challenged hospital.

The Cam Neely Foundation donated $2 million for a pediatric-bone marrow transplant facility, and $5 million worth of improvements to the hospital’s neurosurgery program. Neely’s foundation already had created and funded at Tufts the Neely House, a residential floor for cancer patients that resembles a comfortable hotel.

“We don’t think the hospital, and the cancer center especially, gets the recognition it deserves,” Neely said.

The hospital last year posted its first surpluses after losing $54 million during the prior two years.

Work has yet to start on the pediatric bone marrow center, which will be built at the medical center’s Floating Hospital for Children. It will include facilities for families to remain close to their children during inpatient treatment.

The neurosurgery center improvements, which are largely completed, will be named after his father, Michael Neely, who died of brain cancer. Cam Neely’s mother also died of cancer.

Neely’s foundation has collected about $13 million since its creation in 1997.

A right-winger for the Bruins, Neely retired from hockey in 1996 and was inducted into the National Hockey League Hall of Fame last year.

-The Associated Press