ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation, a 501(c) 3 public charity, is the philanthropic funding arm of St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH.) Our mission supports theirs—which is to “do what’s right for kids.” Through many paths SLCH brings about a positive difference—acting as guardians of childhood for almost 90,000 children and families each year. Donations to our Foundation are converted into funding that delivers essential health care services, ensures breakthrough research that leads to improved treatments for pediatric conditions, and provides community outreach for better childhood wellness in St. Louis. We are recognized as a hub of collaborative medical training and our Emergency Room is the only American College of Surgeons-verified Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Missouri. In 2016, U.S. News & World Report's Honor Roll of Best Children's Hospitals in America listed SLCH for the 15th consecutive year and we achieved national rank in all of ten pediatric specialties measured.
About This Cause
Founded in 1879 in a rented home with 15 beds, St. Louis Children's Hospital (SLCH) is the oldest children's hospital west of the Mississippi—and the seventh oldest in the United States. Today, our hospital is a 280-bed, nationally renowned leader in pediatric medicine offering children from all 50 US states and from 80 countries comprehensive care in every pediatric medical and surgical specialty. For more than a century, our hospital has set new standards in care and cure, teaching, clinical research, and community outreach that improves the health of children from our region and across the world. We have an unbroken, 138 year tradition of serving every child in need, without regard for ability to pay (in 2015 we provided charity care to 11,907 patients.) When children get sick, they don’t stop dreaming of scoring that goal, attending summer camp or going to the prom. Staffed by top medical professionals from Washington University School of Medicine and with investments from donors to our Foundation, SLCH delivers specialized treatments for childhood illnesses as well as emotional and social support that families can’t find anywhere else—such as art and music therapy, clown docs, a hospital based school program, and a sibling playroom staffed by child development professionals. Family Care at our hospital also assists our neediest families with lodging and meals, medication at discharge, transportation expenses and, when the unimaginable happens—burial expenses. Children and families come to us for the latest therapeutic advances to treat the most complex medical diagnoses. As the fundraising arm of SLCH, St. Louis Children's Hospital Foundation directs all philanthropic activities for the hospital supports an ambitious strategic plan to maintain SLCH as a top-tier national pediatric institution. SLCH is also keenly focused on one of the biggest challenges facing our region—eliminating local disparities in pediatric disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Over thirty-five percent of our patients come from low-income families and qualify for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for poor children, and an additional twenty-five percent are considered “working poor.” Of note is that St. Louis has close to 100,000 refugees and immigrants making the greater metropolitan region their home. Steadily increasing numbers of immigrant and refugee populations seek treatment and medical services from SLCH and its cross-cultural health programs. As such, we are on the front lines of treating pediatric conditions that, with access to preventative care and ability to afford medications and insurance, could often be avoided. Our Foundation continually strives to diversify and continually increase our base of support so that SLCH can bring about a positive difference for the neediest children and families in our community. One way in which we address this is by providing targeted health outreach that includes: free mobile health care through Healthy Kids Express Asthma, Dental, and Screening vehicles; child safety education training and unlimited information on medical conditions and parenting a sick child (to decrease incidents of abuse or neglect) through our Family Resource Center; Safety Street to teach children to navigate safely on foot or bike through their neighborhoods to reduce fatalities and motor vehicle injuries; and, a car seat installation station and safety store that provides free items as necessary.