March 8, 2016

Honorary chairs

Texas Children’s Hospital is proud to announce Robert and Janice McNair as honorary chairs of Promise: The Campaign for Texas Children’s Hospital. The comprehensive $475 million fundraising effort will help ensure the future of Texas Children’s as the leading pediatric and women’s health care provider for greater Houston, the state of Texas and beyond.

“Bob and Janice McNair are highly respected leaders in the Houston community and faithful, longtime donors and friends of Texas Children’s Hospital,” said Mark A. Wallace, president and CEO of Texas Children’s Hospital. “Their support as honorary chairs of the Promise Campaign will be invaluable in helping us achieve our goal and ultimately fulfill our promise of providing specialized care to every child who comes to Texas Children’s for help.”

The Promise Campaign focuses on several initiatives including improving facilities for critical, surgical and emergency care services at the hospital’s main campus in>the Texas Medical Center, as well as the construction of Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, a 548,000-square-foot dedicated pediatric hospital, which will care for children in communities north of Houston.

“Serving as honorary chairs of the Promise Campaign is a wonderful way for us to help ensure that every child in our community has the highest quality care and the best possible chance to live a long, fulfilling life,” said Robert McNair.

The goal of the fundraising endeavor is to help ensure Texas Children’s has the infrastructure in place to meet the needs of the patients it serves five, 10 and even 20 years from now.

“Any visionary can take on a bold endeavor,” said Michael Linn, Promise Campaign chair. “Successfully completing one of this magnitude requires a team with extraordinary leaders like Bob and Janice McNair, who embrace the vision, give their all to fulfill it and inspire others to do the same.”

 

Texas Children’s is committed to providing the very best care to all children who come to the hospital for help. It is essential to give the right care, at the right time, in the right place — and to do so, it is essential that Texas Children’s continue to grow.

 

For more information about the Promise Campaign, watch this video.

 

To learn more about the Promise Campaign, visit texaschildrens.org/promise.

January 12, 2016

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In support of Promise: The Campaign for Texas Children’s Hospital, Texas Children’s and ABC-13 have joined together to highlight amazing stories from the hospital. The stories – many of which will showcase the excellent work you do – will air at 6 p.m. on select weekdays and can be found on ABC-13’s website.

The goal of Promise is to raise $475 million to help the hospital address current challenges and anticipate patients’ needs now and in the future. The money will provide support for five key areas: expanding our critical, surgical and emergency care services through the construction of the new Pediatric Tower, construction of Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, establishment of endowed chairs, ongoing support for our divisions and centers of excellence, and charity care.

As employees of Texas Children’s, you too can help us offer hope, comfort and healing to children in this community and around the world by making a promise of your own. Until November 27, ABC-13 will match individual donations to the campaign dollar for dollar up to $100,000. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to double your gift and further change the lives of children in our community and beyond.

Donate today! To learn more about Promise, click here.

December 22, 2015

122315DirectEnergy640At a December 18 celebration, Texas Children’s Hospital announced a $5 million commitment from Direct Energy to the hospital’s Promise Campaign. The gift will be used to help expand Texas Children’s Heart Center in order to serve more children in the Houston community, Texas and the nation.

Direct Energy’s commitment is the largest corporate gift ever made to a Texas Children’s campaign priority. Nearly 200 employees from both institutions gathered at Texas Children’s to celebrate and hear remarks from Mark A. Wallace, president and CEO of Texas Children’s; Michael C. Linn, a member of Texas Children’s Board of Trustees and chair, along with his wife Carol, of the Promise Campaign; and Badar Khan, president and CEO of Direct Energy.

“Direct Energy’s generous support will help ensure Texas Children’s is able to continue to provide highly specialized care to each and every child who comes to us for help – and particularly to those who are the most critically ill and have the most complex needs,” Wallace said.

One of the highest priorities within the Promise Campaign is the expansion of the critical, surgical and emergency care services and facilities at the Texas Medical Center campus, including Texas Children’s Heart Center.

“Texas Children’s is a world-class provider of pediatric care and Direct Energy is proud to join forces with this extraordinary institution and make this meaningful gift,” Khan said. “We know our partnership with Texas Children’s will make a difference in the health and well-being of countless children and families.”

Texas Children’s recently began construction on a new 640,000-square-foot, 19-story pediatric tower. Texas Children’s Heart Center will be expanded and relocated to this pediatric tower to provide complex care more efficiently and serve even more patients. The new facility will also house pediatric intensive care units, cardiovascular intensive care units and operating rooms.

Texas Children’s Heart Center is ranked No. 2 nationally in cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report. Each year, Texas Children’s Heart Center specialists see 20,000 patients in outpatient clinics. In 2014, Texas Children’s surgeons performed 900 congenital heart surgeries and 32 heart transplants – more than any other pediatric hospital in the nation. Texas Children’s has also pioneered many of the now-standard cardiac procedures used around the world.

Promise: The Campaign for Texas Children’s Hospital is a comprehensive, $475 million fundraising effort launched in 2014 to help ensure the hospital meets the increasing need for specialized care for Houston’s rapidly growing pediatric community. For more information about the Promise campaign, visit www.texaschildrens.org/promise.

March 3, 2015

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Texas Children’s Hospital began with a promise more than six decades ago. It was a promise to the community that we would be here to take care of their children – all of them, regardless of ability to pay – for many years to come. Today that promise is even stronger and more evident and has broadened to include the women who now come to us for care.

It stands to reason that Texas Children’s next chapter would be ushered in with a bold capital campaign that will help ensure we can respond to the growing need for care. Texas Children’s has launched Promise, a $475 million comprehensive campaign.

“We are so excited about the Promise campaign,” said Laura Shuford, vice president of Development. “Supporting a fundraising effort that has a goal of providing the best possible care to even more children is a cause that speaks to the heart and one that so many people can relate to.”

The Promise campaign focuses on five key initiatives:

  • CareFirst, for the expansion of our Critical Care services, ORs/PACU and Emergency Center at the Main Camp
  • Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, our new 548,000-square-foot dedicated pediatric hospital serving the growing communities north of Houston
  • Endowed Chairs, which are a powerful tool in recruiting and retaining world-class physicians and scientists
  • Divisions and Centers of Excellence to provide ongoing support for specialty care programs and projects
  • Charity Care and hospital priorities, to help alleviate the financial burdens families take on with complex medical care and to provide flexible funds to address the hospital’s most pressing needs at any given time

Of the $475 million campaign total, $350 million of the funds raised will support the CareFirst expansion and renovation projects, scheduled for completion in 2020, and The Woodlands campus, currently under construction and scheduled for completion in 2017. These two initiatives are the hospital’s top priorities.

“This is one of the biggest challenges Texas Children’s has ever faced,” said Texas Children’s President and CEO Mark A. Wallace. “But I know we can meet the challenge head on and keep the promise we made so many years ago – and the promise we make every single day – to serve all the children and families who come to us for help.”

How you can help
You can help us spread the word about the Promise campaign and the impact it will make right here in Houston and beyond. Visit texaschildrens.org/promise and share the page with family and friends who may be interested in supporting our efforts.