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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research hospital headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [1]
The St. Jude Catholic Hospital, which opened in 1951, was the first integrated hospital in the southeastern United States, [6] [8] and the first hospital in the region to admit all patients regardless of color or creed. [9] It is also the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King's two eldest children, Yolanda and Martin ...
On November 24, 1953, the hilltop property on which St. Jude Hospital was later built was blessed and dedicated. St. Jude's Hospital was publicly dedicated on May 11, 1957, with 2000 spectators in attendance as well as dignitaries including Congressman James B. Utt and Cardinal James McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles. [7]
“Donald Pinkel introduced the word ‘cure’ to cancer,” said Dr. James Downing, current president and CEO of St. Jude. Pinkel died Wednesday. He was 95.
For the better part of the last six months, Beckett has been living in Tennessee at St. Jude's Hospital, battling ATRT brain cancer - a very rare, fast-growing tumour. Family of three-year-old ...
This past Saturday afternoon, e-sports star Benjamin Lupo set off on a mission to raise $2 million in 24 hours for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The 32-year-old husband and father from ...
Thomas was raised in Toledo, Ohio, attending St. Francis de Sales Church, Woodward High School. [5] Bishop Samuel Stritch of Toledo confirmed Thomas in the Catholic Church in 1921. [6] Stritch, a native of Tennessee, was a lifelong spiritual advisor for Thomas, and would later advise him to locate the St. Jude Hospital in Memphis. [7] [8]
This year, St. Jude’s Thanks and Giving campaign celebrates its 20th anniversary and passing the fundraising milestone of $1 billion to support the hospital’s efforts to provide free medical ...