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Fundraising for 2005
Total Campaign dollars raised
$100,000,000
Inaugural grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
$226,650,367
Community philanthropy, raised by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
$200,000,000
Matching Funds from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
n 2005, the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health celebrated the completion of the unprecedented $526 million
Campaign for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
Throughout the five-year Campaign, donors made significant gifts to develop innovative hospital programs, fund pediatric-related faculty and research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and expand services and facilities to better serve local children. Today, more than 150 endowments support care, research, and training at Packard Children's and the School of Medicine. Donors' generosity has allowed the Hospital and University to recruit leading experts from throughout the country to join a growing team of pediatric specialists.
Campaign efforts also broadened the base of philanthropic support for pediatric care by increasing annual community contributions to the Lucile Packard Children's Fund. These gifts support the Hospital's greatest needs each year, including patient and family services, community outreach programs, and grants for pediatric research. Children's Fund gifts also help pay for care for children with limited or no medical insurance, ensuring treatment for any local child who needs the Hospital's services, regardless of a family's financial circumstances.
Packard's seven volunteer-led Auxiliaries continued their long tradition of supporting uncompensated care and other special projects at the Children's Hospital through their community-based fundraising activities. In addition, the Auxiliaries Endowment, created through auxiliary members' bequests, grew to $12.6 million in 2005. Grants from the endowment supported three projects: a new in-room interactive television system for hospital patients; a youth obesity program; and laboratory technology to detect infection in newborns.
Highlights — 2005
- U.S.News & World Report named Lucile Packard Children's Hospital as one of the top 10 children's hospitals in the nation and the best on the West Coast in 2005. Packard's rise in prominence reflects the many world-class programs developed during the Campaign for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
- Staffed by Packard doctors, nurses, and other specialists, the community's only facility offering emergency services specifically for children opened in December 2005 at Stanford University Hospital. More than 50 individual donors contributed a combined total of $11 million toward developing the pediatric emergency services.
- The construction of a new clinic and diagnostic center for heart patients and a new dialysis and treatment center moved forward in 2005, to more fully accommodate Packard's world-class pediatric cardiology and kidney transplant programs. Both facilities were funded through Campaign gifts and are expected to open in 2006.
- Packard and the Stanford University School of Medicine recruited leading pulmonary biologist David N. Cornfield, MD, to head the Pulmonary Center of Excellence, which includes the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. His arrival from the University of Minnesota Medical School is expected to expand research and teaching in pediatric pulmonary medicine and help develop a comprehensive approach to caring for children with lung health problems.
- Stem cell expert Kenneth Weinberg, MD, joined Packard Hospital from Children's Center Los Angeles, as the leader of the stem cell transplant program. Weinberg's expertise will boost transplantation, oncology, and immunology research efforts within Packard's premier cancer center, which is home to leading programs in clinical oncology and cancer biology.