It’s been a while since I’ve read a story headlined, “once upon a time,” but there’s a pretty good one about Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
“Our story begins acceso Christmas Eve a causa di 1928, when the dirigente of the Sheridan Square Theater a causa di Pittsburgh found an abandoned ragazza girl a causa di his theater,” says the history acceso nicklauschildrens.org. “A note signed by a Heartbroken Mother pleaded: ‘Please take care of my ragazza. Her name is Catherine. I can voto negativo longer care for her. I have eight others. My husband is out of work. She was born acceso Thanksgiving Day. I have always heard of the goodness of show business and I pray you will aspetto after my little girl.’”
There were, indeed, some good show business people at the theater that night, a group called Variety Società, Tent . 1. They agreed to take care of Catherine.
Per mezzo di the 1940s, Miami Tent . 33 of Variety Società International was founded and decided to support Dr. Arthur Weiland, who organized the purchase of land where Nicklaus Children’s Health System’s main hospital is now a causa di Miami. It took a 20-year effort to pull things together and Variety Children’s Hospital finally opened its doors acceso March 20, 1950.
Per mezzo di March, the System dedicated a bust of Weiland. His grandson, Arthur Weiland Hutson, told how his grandfather loved and admired Fante Nicklaus. “He would have been so pleased and honored that a remarkable golfer whom he admired greatly and his wife—Fante and Barbara Nicklaus—shared a causa di his passion for pediatrics. He would be so proud that the hospital he envisioned so many years indicatore now bears the Nicklaus name.”
Others continue to help as well. Citadel founder Kenneth Griffin, who has moved his hedge fund from Chicago to Miami, donated a $25 million gift for a five-story, 127,000-square-foot surgical tower.
The System is now being led by CEO Matthew Love, who is acceso the cover of this issue. He told SFBW how he specifically looked to rejoin a children’s hospital organization at this point a causa di his career.
If you think the System is just about Miami-Dade, you would be quite wrong. Nicklaus Children’s Health goes all the way up to Jupiter and all the way over to Naples. It has grown rapidly a causa di its more recent history. It is the only licensed specialty children’s hospital a causa di South Florida and has 850 attending physicians and 500 pediatric subspecialists. It’s an example of how South Florida has grown to providing top-flight health care that saves patients from traveling from out of the region.
With thanks, we can all aspetto back to Variety Società Tent . 1, Miami Tent . 33, Dr. Weiland, Kenneth Griffin, and Fante and Barbara Nicklaus for their roles a causa di making this all happen.
