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St. Jude Hospital Capstone Project

Cecilia Gates

Purdue Global University

HA499-Capstone

Professor Lisa Giarda

Date

I started volunteer work at St. Jude Children hospital with my friend Anita Hawkins who serves on the committee for St. Jude Hospital. I truly enjoyed the time we spent at the hospital in Memphis with the children and their families. We kept the children entertained by reading books, painting nails, playing games and playing cards. While I was volunteering, we gave parents time to run errands, take a shower and treated them to a manicure and pedicure. I also participated in the walk/run to end childhood cancer in Dallas, Texas; this will be my fifth year raising money for this great cause. I am choosing to write about St. Jude Children Research Hospital because it is one of my charities that is very important to me to find a cure for childhood cancer. I also raise money for charity events for St. Jude Children Research Hospital.

Analysis of the Organization

St. Jude Children Research Hospital located in Memphis, Tennessee was founded by an entertainer Danny Thomas on February 4, 1962. Thomas and his business associates thought that St. Jude should be more than a general hospital, and they started building the 85,000 square foot research hospital in 1955. During the time the hospital was being built childhood cancer survival rate was at 20 percent, and Leukemia was the most common form of cancer for children. Thomas and his business associates believed that they could help families at St. Jude Hospital by making the hospital a research institution with the best doctors, scientists and staff to find a cure for childhood cancer, sickle cell, and any other deadly disease. Thomas wanted to make sure families with children battling a condition did not have to pay for anything and can focus on their child with a disease (St. Jude, 2018 ). The hospital is a unique building that contains memorabilia of Thomas. “The Danny Thomas/ALSAC Pavillion is shaped like a star with five alcoves surrounding the rotunda.” The building is a representation of the world, and the design symbolizes the scope of ALSAC and the work of St. Jude (ALSAC,2018).

The hospital approximately has 5000 or more patients visit yearly, which most of the patients are treated, outpatient. However, the hospital has 78 beds for children that need inpatient cancer treatment (NCCN, 2018). The inpatient facility has artistic design images that reflect beauty, hope, and peace to make the time in the hospital happy for the patients and their families. The hospital also has several housing facilities for patients that travel to St. Jude for treatment. Tri Delta Place is located on the grounds of the hospital for patients and families 1 to 7 days. The Ronald McDonald House provides housing for patients and families for 8-90 days. Patients that are needing stay for more than 90 days are assigned to the Target house (ST. Jude, 2018).

St. Jude hospital has open eight affiliated locations to offer treatment for cancer patients closer to their homes. The branches are located St. Jude Baton Rouge, LA: Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital in Charlotte,NC; Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children, AL; St. Jude Tri-Cities, Johnson County, TN; The Jim & Trudy Maloof St. Jude Midwest, Peoria, IL; Children’s Hospital of LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Mercy Children’s Hospital, Springfield, MO; and Children's Hospital at Saint Francis, Tulsa, OK. These affiliations work with the staff of St. Jude with clinical trials with children that have cancer or other diseases (St. Jude, 2018).

Level of Clinical Activity and Research

The hospital accepts patients that are children, adolescents and young adults who 21 years old or younger at the time of acceptance. St. Jude’s treats children with blood disorders, brain tumors, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, lymphomas, tumors, and bone marrow diseases. St. Jude also treat patients 18 years or younger for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and other forms of leukemia as well as children and young adults age 25 and younger for certain tumors, surgery and radiation (St. Jude, 2018).

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the first and only National Cancer Institute dedicated to Comprehensive Cancer designated to children. The Comprehensive Cancer Center leads in patient care, education, and community outreach. The Center was awarded excellence in a recent review by NCI review. The center connects scientist and providers to perform research and treatment for the center. The center has five major research programs they support to translate scientific discoveries into therapy for children with cancer. Developmental Biology & solid tumors, hematological malignancies and neurobiology and brain tumors, are the disease programs and survivorship and cancer control are plans to improve quality of life of patients (St. Jude, 2018).

Dr. Donald Pinkel, was one of the first directors to do studies of total therapy of acuute lymphoblastic leukamia. The series of studies showed that acute lymphoblastic (ALL), was curable in a high percentage of children. Other studies in childhood cancer, and basic biology research, created an evironment of excellence of science. Over the 40 years the hospital has grown tremendously in scientific research through physical and financial growth. The hospital is able to compete for research grants, and through fundraising of the American Labanese Syrian Associated Charities, (Simone, 2003).

Mission, Vision, Goals

The mission statement of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is, “To advance cures, and means of prevention, for catastrophic pediatric diseases through research and treatment” (St. Jude, 2018). The mission statement is the vision of the late Danny Thomas the founder of St. Jude Hospital that no child is denied treatment based on race, religion, or ability to pay for treatment.

Community and Global Impact

The community and global impact of the hospital have reduced the rates of death among children due to cancer in the United States and globally. The hospital has increased the survival rates of death from twenty percent to over eighty percent since the opening of the facility (St. Jude, 2018). Any of the research that is discovered is shared with the global scientific community; the hospital wants to make sure that children have access to care no matter where they live. St. Jude, established an international outreach program in 1993, to extend a global impact. The hospital used an existing model to develop relationships with 24 hospitals in 17 countries in low and middle-income areas. The countries are Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Philippines and Venezuela (St. Jude, 2018). St. Jude Global is aiming to bring medical care to children all over the world, led by the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine. St. Jude will continue to network with partners around the world so that children across the globe have access to care.

“The mission of the global department is to improve survival rates of children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases worldwide through the sharing of knowledge, technology, and organizational skills”(St. Jude global, 2018). The mission can be met by achieving the goas of training the clinical team, develop and strengthen health systems, and knowledge in global children oncology and hematology through research. The Vision for St. Jude Global to develop strong networks, in the next decade influence the care of cancer worldwide by thirty percent (St. Jude Global, 2018).

References:

Clinical & research innovation. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.stjude.org/research/initiatives.html?sc_icid=res-mm-innovation

Danny Thomas/ALSAC Pavilion. (2018). Retrieved from

https://www.stjude.org/about-st-jude/visit/tours/danny-Thomas-alsac-pavilion.html

National Cancer Institute. (2018). St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Retrieved from https://www.nccn.org/members/profiles/default.aspx?memberid=20

St. Jude. (2018). St.Jude Children’s Hospital. Retrieved from

https://www.stjude.org/