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Why Financial Gifts Are Needed

The North Carolina Children’s Hospital is committed to providing quality care for all children, regardless of their families' ability to afford the services. Some might wonder why a public institution like the North Carolina Children’s Hospital would need private funding. In fact, though the North Carolina Legislature provides generous state funding toward the care provided at the Children’s Hospital, there is a tremendous gap that must be filled. That gap results from a variety of needs–from the uninsured, the underinsured, the limitations of what Medicaid covers, and the list goes on. At the North Carolina Children's Hospital, about half of our patients have little or no health insurance.

Health care is expensive. It is especially costly to deliver the kind of services that children with complex medical problems need. But that's why we're here. Our pediatric specialists are here to provide lifesaving measures to the tiniest of infants. We're here to help the child who's running out of time and needs an organ transplant or another operation, to give hope to the teenager with a rare disease that threatens his or her reaching adulthood, and to offer the routine care that improves young lives.

It takes significant dollars to continue the leading edge research that assures new and improved discoveries for treating childhood diseases.

It also is costly to provide the quality education for our medical students and training for our pediatric residents so that future children in North Carolina will continue to receive the best of care.

Our charge at UNC is to provide the highest level of care possible, cutting edge research and premiere educational programs. We take our mandate very seriously. The challenge is to find a way that allows us to be innovative and develop programs beyond what's afforded from patients' limited insurance. Simply stated, much of the additional personnel and equipment we need to develop new and innovative programs are not available from the financial resources we have. Instead, we have to seek funds from donors, grants, and other efforts, which is where you come in and why your contributions count.