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  2. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded by American entertainer Danny Thomas as a fulfillment of a prayer he made to the patron saint of hopeless causes, St. Jude, while visiting a Roman Catholic church in Detroit in 1940. At the time, Thomas and his wife were struggling financially and were expecting their first child.

  3. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [1]

  4. Feb 4, 2022 · Memphis, Tennessee, February 4, 2022. A crowd gathers on Feb. 4, 1962, for the opening of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. When St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® founder Danny Thomas opened St. Jude on Feb. 4, 1962, he created an organization as rare today as it was then: a research hospital where children with ...

  5. May 1, 2015 · To make good on his vow to build a shrine in the saint’s honor, Thomas, a Michigan native, years later founded the renowned children’s hospital in Memphis, Tenn., with regional offices throughout the country. Idea for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital began at Detroit’s one-time cathedral.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Danny_ThomasDanny Thomas - Wikipedia

    Most notably, he was the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, a leading center in pediatric medicine with a focus on pediatric cancer. St. St. Jude now has affiliate hospitals in eight other American cities as of early 2020.

  7. Sep 23, 2015 · About three-quarters of the funding that sustains St. Jude, its research and the family support comes from donations; the hospital’s fundraising and awareness organization is one of the largest ...

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