Endeavor Foundation has donated $2 million to Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW) in Springdale. The gift will help ensure ACNW can provide essential programs immediately and deliver comprehensive, family-centered care close to home for every child who needs it.
Arkansas Children’s has a 100-year history of caring for the state’s most vulnerable children. The organization treats every child – regardless of their ability to pay. Each year, Arkansas Children’s spends millions of dollars meeting the needs of children whose families are underinsured, uninsured or whose parents are not in a position to fund their care.
The grant from Endeavor will help cover the costs of family-centered programs and services for the children of Northwest Arkansas.
“Arkansas Children’s is committed to doing what is right for kids, regardless of the cost,” says Trisha Montague, senior vice president for regional services and chief administrator of Arkansas Children’s Northwest. “We anticipate Arkansas Children’s Northwest will operate at a deficit for the first five years due to the expense of delivering family-centered care to every child who enters our doors. We are very grateful to Endeavor Foundation for this generous gift that will help make children in Northwest Arkansas better today and healthier tomorrow.”
When it opens in January 2018, Arkansas Children’s Northwest will be the region’s first and only comprehensive pediatric healthcare center and will include:
•24 inpatient beds to care for children requiring overnight stays
•24-hour pediatric Emergency Department
•Pediatric surgery unit with 5 operating rooms
•An outpatient clinic with 30 exam rooms supporting more than 20 subspecialty areas and a general pediatric clinic
•A full range of ancillary and diagnostic services, child-life and pastoral care
•Outdoor gardens, nature trails, and interactive features designed for children
•A helipad and refueling station supporting Angel One, one of the nation’s leading pediatric intensive care transport services with more than 2,000 transports annually.
In August 2016, Arkansas Children’s announced a public campaign to raise funds for Arkansas Children’s Northwest. To date, the campaign has celebrated publically $57 million in pledges.
Arkansas Children’s Northwest is being built on 37 acres of land donated by Robin and Gary George, Cathy and David Evans and their families -- a gift valued at $7.5 million. The campus is centrally located on I-49 between Don Tyson Parkway and Highway 412, across from Arvest Ballpark. The project is expected to cost $427.7 million in construction, technology, equipment, and operating expenses over the next five years, and will create 250 new jobs.