Case Study Of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research facility that focuses on children’s catastrophic diseases. We are a nonprofit organization and we believe no family should pay for their child to go to St. Jude. Because of your donations, St. Jude has been very successful. Our founder believed that “no child should die in the dawn of life,” and we’ve spent half a century focusing on finding cures and saving children. Since we were founded in 1962, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia has increased from just 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent! Treatments invented at St Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancers from 20 percent to 80 percent. We have treated children from all across