The news broke on Halloween (no, not the costume-tantrums post) that Seattle Children’s Hospital had pulled off one of the largest trick-or-treats ever. The hospital announced that it had received two gifts totaling $65 million. One, from an anonymous donor, was for $50 million from an estate, to support pediatric research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
Another $15 million came from Mrs. Jean Reid of Bellevue, causing us to take back all the unkind things we’ve ever said about the Eastside. Reid’s gift is directed toward the Children’s Bellevue Urgent Care Clinic, advanced nurse training, and the “greatest needs” of Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center. ($1 million is an outright gift, and the remaining $14 million comes from the Reid estate.)
Notes Children’s: “Robert and Jean Reid have been very committed to nursing education throughout the years, having supported scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington School of Nursing. They also donated to the University of Washington School of Nursing to establish the school’s first endowed deanship: the Robert G. and Jean A. Reid Endowed Deanship in Nursing.”
They also would like you to know that “Children’s serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical referral center for the largest landmass of any children’s hospital in the country (Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho).” And you probably shouldn’t let your two-year-old play with your iPad that much. Even if the video may go viral on YouTube.
Admirable donation both of anonymous and Jean. They are really big minded folks. I hope their donation money will be perfectly use to all related sector of children health care in Seattle Children’s Hospital. Thanks mate :)