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Uploaded: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 9:56 AM
Foundation gives $100 million to hospital
'Lead gift' to push for new Packard Children's Hospital to expand services and care for children
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A $100 million gift has been announced by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to help with the construction of the $1 billion new Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital.
The contribution will be the lead gift in the hospital's campaign to add 104 new beds to its Palo Alto campus and expand access to state-of-the-art treatments for children, foundation officials announced today.
The present hospital is operating "beyond its intended capacity," and a new, larger hospital "will allow Packard Children's to sustain its mission -- to provide the community's children access to the most advanced cures, treatments and technologies, performed by the best minds in pediatric medicine, within a family-centered environment.
Cost of the new hospital has been estimated at $1 billion.
It is being reviewed by Palo Alto along with a $2.5 billion expansion of the main Stanford Hospital. -- Palo Alto Weekly staff
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Posted by Hulkamania, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Oct 22, 2009 at 12:38 pm An excellent use of the Foundation's money!
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Posted by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 23, 2009 at 4:06 am
Walter_E_Wallis is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Let's hope not too much of this gift is wasted on satisfying the edifice complex of the PA architectural review bored. The kids will be seeing the inside.
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Posted by Marvin, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood, on Oct 23, 2009 at 9:25 am I bet you our city council is salivating over the idea of getting a hold of a chunk of that money as "mitigation" for Stanford's hospital project (apparently the $23 million Stanford offered is not enough--read Jack Morton's booklet)
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Posted by Ada, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 23, 2009 at 12:49 pm Exactly! Wait till city bureaucrats start their new attack on Stanford, demanding all kinds of stupid concessions and payments.
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