About Children's Miracle Network
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, Utah
What it is: The alliance of 170 premier children’s hospitals in North America, which treat 17 million children each year for every disease and condition imaginable. How it helps: Raises much-needed funds to pay for life-saving equipment, charity care and breakthrough research. How it does it: Through corporate sponsors and events such as the annual televised fundraiser, the Children’s Miracle Network Celebration. How much it’s raised: More than $2.7 billion for hospitalized children since 1983. By The Numbers:
Children’s Miracle Network hospitals treat: 98 percent of all children needing heart or lung transplants
90 percent of all children with sickle cell anemia
88 percent of all children with cancer
76 percent of all children with cystic fibrosis
72 percent of children with pediatric AIDS
6 million children for accident trauma each year
49,000 children with cancer each year
45,000 children for heart defects and problems each year
1,300 children for sickle cell anemia each year
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