Battling Disease with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Quick Facts About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, maintains 60 inpatient beds and treats about 180 patients each day, about 4,700 in active status, most of whom are treated on an outpatient basis.

• It is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer. St. Jude is the largest childhood cancer research center in the world in terms of the number of patients enrolled in research protocols and successfully treated.

• Since opening in 1962, St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and more than 70 foreign countries.

• Research findings at St. Jude are shared with doctors and scientists all over the world. St. Jude also enjoys a worldwide reputation as a teaching facility. The medical and scientific staff published about 450 articles in academic journals in 2004.

• St. Jude, which is non-sectarian, treats children without regard to race, religion, creed or ability to pay. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay.