Intel co-founder, wife donate $50 million for children’s hospital at Stanford
Gordon and Betty Moore donated $50 million to the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California, the largest private gift the hospital received since David and Lucille Packard’s donation to found the hospital.
Stanford Medicine announced the donation on March 28.
The hospital’s children heart center will be named the Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center. The money will be used to fund clinical and research facilities, faculty positions and strategic priorities.
Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel and a longtime executive at the company. He and his wife also founded a foundation and previously made a gift to expand Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Since the foundation was formed in 2001, it has provided 2,356 grants for a total of more than $3.3 billion.
Moore said in a news release that he was motivated to donate $50 million because his grandchild had life-saving surgery at the hospital.
In 2001, the hospital established the Children’s Heart Center to focus on congenital heart disease, which is the most common type of birth defects. Each year, approximately 40,000 children in the U.S. are born with heart defects and an additional 25,000 children develop an acquired heart disease, according to the hospital news release.
“We are honored to have the Moores’ visionary partnership as we strive every day to heal humanity through science and compassion, one child and family at a time,” Christopher Dawes, president and CEO of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, said in a news release. “The Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center will provide world-leading cardiac care to patients today, tomorrow and for generations to come.”
Executive Editor
Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.