Case Study: St. Jude

St. Jude is dedicated to providing the best care for their patients. They do this by being at the cutting-edge of the latest medicine and research in fighting life-threatening pediatric diseases. The core of their mission is to have the ability to research and treat these life threatening diseases for the patients who come through their doors today as well as for the children who will need them in the future. Their formal values revolve around providing the best treatment for their patients and have a responsibility to ensure that they will be able to complete that treatment and care for that child for as long as they need them without their families ever receiving a bill of payment. St. Jude frees families from the biggest burden in getting
life-saving healthcare: the cost. Unlike other hospitals, the majority of funding comes from generous donors. They have a different financial and operating model than large grant-making charities. Public contributions provide 75 percent of the funds necessary to operate the hospital daily. St. Jude's continues its strong values with following all of their patients for 10 years or more after active treatment ends as a part of The St. Jude LIFE & After Completion of Therapy Clinic. Treatments created at St. Jude's has helped pushed the overall survival rate to 94% today for all diseases treated at the hospital. St. Jude freely share their breakthroughs so that one child saved at St. Jude can help doctors and scientists in communities everywhere use that knowledge to save more children everywhere