Michigan Cares

The future of children’s and women’s health care at the University of Michigan Health System will span the length of two football fields, include a dedicated pediatric emergency and urgent care center, and space to accommodate an estimated 4,500 births each year.

Prominent in both size and scope, the facility, which is scheduled to open in Spring 2011, will feature private pediatric inpatient rooms with scenic views of the Nichols Arboretum and Huron River.

The new children’s and women’s hospital will have a 9-story tower for clinic space, and a 12-story tower devoted to inpatient care. The completed building will total 1.1 million gross square feet.

“We’ve designed this new facility with the future in mind, to fit not only today’s medicine, but also tomorrow’s innovations. The new C.S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital is truly an investment in our patients’ health today, the education of our future doctors and Michigan’s health care services,” says Patricia A. Warner, M.P.H., associate hospital director, UMHHC.

Build the Future. Visit: http://www.med.umich.edu/mott/touch/diffnew.html.

Jane Von Voigtlander and daughter, Gwen Haggerty, have given $2 million in memory of husband and father Ted Von Voigtlander, co-founder of Discount Tire, who passed away in 1999. The family wanted to remember Ted by giving to the new children’s and women’s hospital, a cause they agree he would have wanted to support.

Their gift brings the total campaign dollars raised for the new C.S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital to $46 million.

“Our family is very happy about this gift and what it means for Ted’s memory and for the future of children’s medicine at Michigan,” says Jane Von Voigtlander.

The Detroit Tigers caravan visited with fans at the Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor to spread excitement for the upcoming season and to benefit U-M C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Fans received autographs from their favorite Tigers players and coaches, including pitchers Mike Maroth, Nate Robertson, Kenny Rogers and Joel Zumaya, infielder Chris Shelton, outfielder Curtis Granderson and Tigers coaches Chuck Hernandez and Gene Lamont. Participants were asked to donate money, give a new book or provide a gift card to benefit patients and families at Mott Children’s Hospital. In total $1,000 was raised to benefit the building of the new children’s hospital and 50 new books were donated for Mott’s Giving Library.

A You can make an immediate and considerable difference in the lives of patients, students, fellows, clinicians and researchers at the U-M C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital by making an expendable gift. Different from an endowment, which creates a perpetual fund from which funds are drawn annually, an expendable gift can be used immediately and in its entirety. As the benefactor, you can target your expendable gift to a specific disease or area of interest, and you can be as broad or as specific as you like.

Expendable gifts are great for getting new ideas, programs or projects underway, and the gifts can provide life-saving support, such as transporting a very sick child to Mott by medical helicopter. Your expendable gift can also provide immediate aid to Mott’s many programs, and support research and capital goals. The success of our campaign to build a new children’s and women’s hospital, for example, will be achieved through expendable gifts from our donors.

To learn more about making an expendable gift to Mott, please contact the Children’s and Women’s Health Development Team at 734-998-7702 or mott-development@med.umich.edu.
To make a gift online, please visit the “Help Mott Help Kids” section of our website at www.med.umich.edu/mott.