St Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment
and research facility anywhere. Discoveries made
here have completely changed how the world treats
children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

We are where some of today's most gifted researchers
are able to do more science, more quickly. Where
doctors across the world send their toughest cases
and most vulnerable patients. Where no one pays for
treatment beyond what is covered by insurance, and
those without insurance are never asked to pay. 
We've built America's 3rd-largest health-care charity, 
with a model that keeps the costs down and the
funds flowing, so the science never stops.

All patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude are
treated without regard to the family's ability to pay.


Danny Thomas and the Founding of 
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

More than 50 years ago, Danny Thomas, then a struggling young
entertainer with $7 in his pocket, knelt in a Detroit church before
a statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes.

Thomas asked the saint to “show me my way in life.”
His prayer was answered, and soon he moved his family to Chicago
to pursue career offers. A few years later, at another turning point in
his life, Thomas again prayed to St. Jude and pledged to someday
build a shrine to the Saint..Throughout the next years, Thomas’
career prospered through films and television, and he became
a nationally known entertainer. He remembered his pledge to build
a shrine to St. Jude.

In the early 1950s, Thomas began discussing with friends what
concrete form his vow might take. Gradually, the idea of a children’s
hospital, possibly in Memphis, took shape. In 1955, Thomas and a
group of Memphis businessmen who had agreed to help support
his dream seized on the idea of creating a unique research hospital
devoted to curing catastrophic diseases in children. More than just
a treatment facility, this would be a research center for the children
of the world

Danny's Dream-St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital—opened
its doors in 1962 and is now recognized as one of the world’s premier
centers for study and treatment of catastrophic diseases in children.
Focusing on pediatric leukemias, solid tumor forms of cancer,
infectious diseases and biomedical research, during its first decade
of existence, the hospital’s curative therapies and research successes
spread its fame worldwide and helped save the lives of innumerable
children everywhere.

The Success of St. Jude’s

Learn More About St. Jude’s

www.stjude.org

Contact Yvonne Meyerson 
1-888.950.6466