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To honor and recognize the dedication of Nationwide Children's Hospital on September 24, 2007.
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WHEREAS, in June 2006, Columbus Children's Hospital announced a ten-year, $50 million gift from the Nationwide Foundation to support expansion of programs and construction of a new main hospital that will further position the hospital as one of the nation's top pediatric health care and research facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Nationwide Foundation gift was one of the largest philanthropic gifts ever from a corporate foundation in the U.S. and also one of the top five largest single gifts ever given to a children's hospital nationally or internationally; and
WHEREAS, in commemoration of Nationwide Foundation's gift and the enormous impact it will have on the delivery of world-class pediatric health care in central Ohio and beyond, the hospital's Trustees voted to re-name the hospital Nationwide Children's Hospital, effective September 24, 2007; and
WHEREAS, Nationwide Children's Hospital is the fifth largest children's hospital in the U.S. and among the top ten in National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research centers, serves as the free-standing children's hospital for all of central and southeastern Ohio as well as receiving hundreds of specialty referrals from throughout the United States and worldwide, and is also home to The Ohio State University College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics; and
WHEREAS, the Nationwide Foundation gift will support several key areas within Children's growth plan including programmatic support for child safety and injury prevention, neonatal intensive care, and the heart center; and
WHEREAS, a portion of the Nationwide Foundation gift will support construction toward the new main hospital building, a world-class facility where families can be engaged at a new level, receiving culturally sensitive care, information and support during their child's stay at Children's.
WHEREAS, founded in 1959, the Nationwide Foundation has committed more than $169 million since 2000 to help nonprofit organizations in communities where Nationwide associates and their families live and work; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council does hereby honor and recognize the dedication of Nationwide Children's Hospital on September 24, 2007.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution be presented to Nationwide Children's Hospital with our esteem.