Louisville Walmart stores raising millions for Norton Children's Hospital

Norton Children’s Hospital's “Just for Kids” Critical Care Center has received a large donation toward its major upgrades.

Through individual store campaigns, Walmart will donate the next $3 million to support the renovation of North Children's Hospital. 

Walmart's donation will be made to the Children's Hospital Foundation, which has committed to giving $20 million to the $78.3 million project. 

“Walmart has been a leader in supporting Norton Children’s Hospital since 2007,” said Lynnie Meyer, senior vice president and chief development officer for Norton Healthcare. 

“The entire Walmart organization has seen the importance of this advanced specialty care for children and has truly helped us make it possible.”

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The “Just for Kids” Critical Care Center is the only pediatric intensive care unit in the western half of Kentucky and Southern Indiana. 

“The kind of high-tech, high-touch care we can provide for a critically ill or injured child requires many different resources, from specialists to equipment and even facilities,” Meyer said.

“Walmart’s support allows us to ensure we have what is necessary to take care of children of all sizes with all kinds of critical and complex issues, whenever we’re needed.”

Nationally, Walmart has provided $1 billion in support of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a national nonprofit that raises funds for 170 hospitals across the nation.

Upgrades for the “Just for Kids” Critical Care Center will begin in early 2020. The unit will be updated from top to bottom with new flooring, doors, windows, lighting and furniture that will provide a more comfortable space for families to stay with their children.

A new waiting area will give families access to laundry facilities, a kitchenette, quiet space and active space for a break from the stress of being in the hospital.

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