Nothing is more important to parents than a child's health and well-being. At Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital you'll find a team of highly skilled medical professionals dedicated to providing the best possible care to children, from infants to young adults, at locations throughout northern Ohio.

Your financial support will enable us to continue to offer this world-class, family-centered service, expand existing programs, and can assist in the funding of new pediatric research initiatives. When you support Cleveland Clinic and Children's Hospital, you become a part of something invaluable and enduring. You also enhance your charitable and financial objectives by choosing among a range of tax-smart ways to make your gift.

Background

Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital is a hospital within the world renowned Cleveland Clinic. Since 1921, Cleveland Clinic has provided compassionate medical, surgical, and rehabilitative care to children and families. Today, that superb care is accessible to families in a variety of settings across northeast Ohio, including our main campus, East 95th Street and Euclid Avenue in the heart of Cleveland, Ohio, as well as on the east and west sides of the city.

Our hospital also includes Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation, Shaker Campus, a free-standing hospital for children with a variety of chronic or disabling conditions requiring longer-term care, just two miles from the main campus. Children recovering from trauma, surgery, or an acute hospital stay come to the Shaker Campus. Comprehensive outpatient therapy is offered here and at three locations in Greater Cleveland. Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Shaker Campus also features specialty programs including the Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism, a Feeding Disorders Clinic, an innovative motor control program, and Northeast Ohio's only dedicated outpatient pediatric hemodialysis unit.

To complete this system of care in our community, Cleveland Clinic's regional Family Health Centers provide pediatric primary care services, accounting for well over 100,000 pediatric and adolescent outpatient visits annually.

In addition to our main campus, Shaker Campus and Family Health Center practices, Hillcrest Hospital, east of downtown Cleveland, and Fairview Hospital, serving families to the west of the city, are the first Cleveland Clinic Health System hospitals to share the Children's Hospital brand. These community hospitals offer expanded access to routine pediatric consultations as well as providing full-time, dedicated pediatric emergency services and neonatal intensive care units to families in the communities where they live.

While the large volume of patients we serve, locally and across the globe, is impressive, the compassionate way in which we deliver this state-of-the-art care ensures that families continue to count on Cleveland Clinic and Children's Hospital. Our hospital is as much "high-touch" as it is "high-tech." Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital professionals have a solid commitment to providing family-centered care, communicating with parents and referring physicians in ways that stands apart from other hospitals. And outcomes for our hospital typically exceed the national average (see quality measures on our website for more details).

Highly regarded worldwide for taking a leading role in cardiology and cardiac surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, neonatology and gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital is also distinguished for:

• having the only comprehensive pediatric transplant program in northern Ohio
• operating a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with 24-hour, on-site coverage by senior attending physicians
• providing leading-edge therapies for pediatric patients with cancer and complex blood disorders
• having the only dedicated pediatric dialysis unit in Northeast Ohio affiliated with a full-service transplant center
• having the only program in the region that provides educational services for children with autism using an exclusively science-based approach

Your support for Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital's clinical and educational programs would be most welcome. Our hospital has experienced generous and ongoing support from families locally, throughout the U.S. and around the world, as well from foundations, corporations, and other professional, business and non-profit entities.

Please consider the following charitable-giving strategies:

Annual and Gifts of Assets

The simplest way to support Cleveland Clinic is through an annual gift . Cleveland Clinic relies on continued support to help maintain its important advances in research, education and world-class patient care, and many of our donors support Cleveland Clinic with gifts year after year.

In addition to cash donations, you can give a gift of assets including stocks, bonds and property (including real estate and tangible personal property such as artwork). This option will not only provide you with charitable deductions, but it may also offer additional tax savings. Many donors support Cleveland Clinic with gifts year after year.

Endowments

Endowments create permanent support and help to attract new, vital talent to Cleveland Clinic.

Gift Planning

From an estate, financial and tax-planning perspective, it is sometimes preferable to consider long-term planned giving as the best way to make a gift. This can be accomplished in various ways, such as charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities and bequests With a planned gift you have the additional satisfaction of knowing you are providing for the success of Cleveland Clinic and better healthcare for many years to come.

To speak directly with a member of our Development office staff, please call 216.445.1038 or go to giving/default.aspx.