http://www.ncchildrenshospital.org
About Us
North Carolina Children’s Hospital protects the health and well-being of North Carolina’s 2.1 million children by aligning premier health care practitioners, world-class medical education, and innovative, interdisciplinary research to provide the highest-quality, family-centered care, regardless of a family's ability to pay. As a major referral center for children with complex and chronic conditions, N.C. Children’s Hospital works hand-in-hand with community hospitals and pediatricians across the state, providing specialty care to more than 70,000 children from all 100 counties each year.
N.C. Children’s Hospital offers complete pediatric inpatient and outpatient care in its 140-bed state-of-the-art facility at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and at more than 25 satellite outpatient clinics throughout North Carolina. The Children’s Hospital’s world-class physicians, nurses and other clinical staff represent all pediatric subspecialties and are capable of treating children with virtually any disease or disorder. For more information, please visit www.ncchildrenshospital.org.
Quick Facts
• All pediatric and pediatric surgical subspecialties are represented in our faculty.
• There is only one other hospital in the country that does more invasive bronchoscopy, a diagnostic procedure to examine a child's lungs by looking inside the lungs with a special instrument.
• More children have surgery at UNC than anywhere else in the state. Further, 30 percent of children’s surgeries use minimally invasive techniques, such as laparoscopy, resulting in smaller incisions, less pain, less discomfort, faster recovery and smaller scars.
• UNC is one of two hospitals in the southeast that performs living donor related liver transplants in children.
The N.C. Children’s Promise
The N.C. Children’s Promise, established in early 2002, is a year-round fundraising campaign that includes numerous events, projects, and partnerships throughout the community. Its mission is to secure financial and community resources to provide comprehensive, family-centered health care for the children of North Carolina and surrounding states. Unrestricted, private support of the N.C. Children’s Promise helps the hospital:
• Provide advanced comprehensive care to children from all 100 counties in North Carolina, regardless of their families’ abilities to pay;
• Maintain a family-focused, child-friendly environment, while providing state-of-the-art care for children with complex and life-threatening health problems; and
• Continue cutting-edge research that assures new discoveries for treating childhood diseases.
The N.C. Children’s Promise, benefiting North Carolina Children’s Hospital, is a program of the Medical Foundation of NC, Inc., the charitable, tax-exempt organization supporting the overall goals of UNC Health Care and the UNC School of Medicine. All annual gifts in support of North Carolina Children’s Hospital are part of the N.C. Children’s Promise. Supporters include patient families, faculty and staff, community friends, corporations, foundations, and civic/student groups.
The Medical Foundation of NC
Mission: The Medical Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. secures financial and volunteer resources for the UNC Medical Center to provide for a healthier future through medical education, research and patient care.
History: The Medical Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. was chartered in 1949 as a 501(c)(3) charitable not-for-profit organization. Today, The Medical Foundation is responsible for encouraging private gift support of programs throughout the School of Medicine and the UNC Hospitals. The Foundation is the only organization approved for fundraising with the School and Hospitals and is responsible for coordination and clearance of private gift activities.
The dedication of physicians to their patients drives medical science to discover better means of preventing and treating disease. However, with the state supplying only 12 percent of the UNC Medical Center’s annual budget, the Center must rely on the support of its friends and alumni. The Medical Foundation presently is raising approximately $17 to $20 million each year in new gift support to benefit the School and Hospitals. Many other private gifts, in support of the School and Hospitals, flow directly into University accounts and other departmental trust funds. It is estimated that total private gift support of all programs approaches $50 million annually.
The programs of The Medical Foundation are many and varied. Nearly 1,100 individual accounts are managed both for endowment and current operations purposes. Although the majority of funds are for restricted purposes (scholarships, professorships, lectureships, research support), there is also a growing unrestricted quasi-endowment. Over the years, assets have accumulated and now total approximately $234 million. |
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