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Highlights & happenings Donor-funded facility fosters research partnerships A five-story, 200,000-square-foot Health Sciences Research Building was dedicated in October at Emory University. More than half the facility will be devoted to pediatric research through the Emory-Children’s Pediatric Research Center, a partnership between the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. The research partnership also has key affiliates such as Georgia Institute of Technology. The approximately $90 million cost of the building was funded entirely by philanthropic donors, including an anonymous donor, Georgia Research Alliance, O. Wayne Rollins Foundation, Raymond F. Schinazi, Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, The Zeist Foundation, Inc. and many other generous contributors. The new building is attached by a walking bridge to the Emory-Children’s Center building adjacent to our Egleston hospital. At the heart of the building’s design is a simple idea: make it easy for researchers to get fresh inspiration from talking to other scientists.
Monthly gifts can make you a Hughes Hero A simple monthly gift can make a big impact for the children we care for at our Hughes Spalding hospital. Our Hughes Heroes support the children and families at Hughes Spalding. Located in downtown Atlanta, the hospital manages more than 80,000 patient visits each year, providing quality emergency services, primary care, asthma care, sickle cell disease treatment, developmental services and child protection. Visit choa.org/hughesheroes to learn more and make a secure gift.
Holiday giving surpasses $130,000 This holiday season, the community truly went “All In” with Children’s to help raise critically needed dollars. Our generous supporters helped us to raise over $130,000 during our third annual year-end fundraising campaign. More than 95 percent of donations were made online, and donors were able to purchase much-needed items from the wish list such as arts and crafts supplies, books, and red wagons for the patients in our hospitals.