About St. Jude
With Friends of St. Jude groups all over the country, young professionals are helping to spread the message of St. Jude nationwide.
Although St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is located in Memphis, Tennessee, it truly is a local cause. Children with catastrophic diseases from your city and around the country have been admitted to the hospital, regardless of age, race, religion or ability to pay.
While the money is raised locally by Friends of St. Jude, it is far reaching. Important research and protocols from the hospital are shared freely and immediately with medical institutions in your region and throughout the world.
St. Jude is where some of today's most gifted researchers are able to do more science, more quickly. Where doctors across the world send their toughest cases and most vulnerable patients. Where no one pays for treatment beyond what is covered by insurance, and those without insurance are never asked to pay.
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, maintains 60 inpatient beds and treats about 230 patients each day, about 4,900 in active status, most of who are treated on an outpatient basis.
- Since opening in 1962, St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and more than 70 foreign countries.
- The hospital’s daily operating costs are more than $1.2 million, which are primarily covered by public contributions.
- During the past three years, 85.1 percent of every dollar received by ALSAC/St. Jude has gone to the current or future needs of St. Jude.
- In 1962, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer, was 4 percent. Today, the survival rate for this once deadly disease is 94 percent thanks to research and treatment protocols developed at St. Jude.