Fundraising Achievements
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2008, the Foundation made major progress in its ambitious Breaking
New Ground campaign for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the
child health programs of the Stanford University School of Medicine, reaching
$289 million toward our goal of $300 million. The Campaign was boosted
by a generous $30 million challenge grant to encourage major gifts to
support fellowships and faculty scholars.
Total donations for the Hospital and School reached a record $90.8 million in 2008, thanks to the generosity of 8,051 individuals, foundations, and corporations.
Hospital Auxiliaries
At the end of 2008, the Auxiliaries Endowment stood at $12.8 million. The endowment is made up of bequests from members of Packard’s seven all-volunteer Auxiliaries and their families. The community-based Auxiliaries raise funds to support uncompensated care and other special Hospital projects. Since the endowment was formed in 1999, more than $3.6 million in payout has supported new Hospital programs, purchased equipment, funded major patient services and facilities, and endowed a fund honoring Harvey Cohen, MD, Ph.D., former chief of staff. A portion of the 2008 payout from the Auxiliaries Endowment was directed to a major commitment in the Hospital’s Phase II expansion project.
Hospital Highlights—2008
- Hugh O’Brodovich, MD, became the new Adalyn Jay Physician-in-Chief of the Children’s Hospital and the Arline and Pete Harman Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine. An expert in pediatric pulmonology, he formerly led Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.
Hugh O’Brodovich, MD
- Packard Children’s launched a new web site (quality.lpch.org) that allows visitors to access a variety of data about the Hospital’s performance. This move toward greater data transparency is another milestone in an ongoing effort to advance patient safety and quality of care. Packard is the first children’s hospital in California, and one of only a few in the country, to voluntarily report clinical quality outcomes.
- The Care-A-Van for Kids department at Packard Children’s celebrated the success of 10 years of continuous community service to families who need transportation to hospital appointments. In that time, the dedicated people who drive the program’s seven vans have volunteered more than 12,500 hours, driving 3,300 patient families over 400,000 miles to and from medical appointments.
- The Hospital’s Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program expanded to treat young adults ages 18 to 21, offering treatment to older adolescents and college students. Packard couples the longest continuously running inpatient eating disorders program in the Bay Area with an outpatient program that coordinates medical and psychiatric treatment. Through the years, the program has helped thousands of patients.
High-tech operating rooms are a feature of the new Ford Family Surgery Center.
- Packard was recognized once again for being one of the finest pediatric medical centers in the country. In the annual U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue released in June, Packard was rated the best in the Bay Area, and recognized as a national leader in specialties such as neonatology, cardiology, heart surgery, and cancer.
- Packard Children’s and Stanford University launched the ‘Recent Advances in Autism Treatment and Research’ conference–aimed at sharing the latest in autism research with the families of affected children. Hundreds of family members, caregivers, and teachers of children with autism had a unique opportunity to hear from clinicians and researchers on the front line of the challenging disorder.
- The West Coast's preeminent pediatric surgical center–the Ford Family Surgery Center–opened, providing Packard with dedicated state-of-the-art surgical facilities designed specifically for children. The seven new operating rooms offer the latest in imaging and communication technologies, allowing surgeons to operate with unprecedented precision, speed, and efficiency.