CHRISTUS HEALTH
A technology company founder and his foundation have donated $3 million toward the reconstruction of the Children's Hospital of San Antonio.
Formerly called CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, the 200-bed facility will be San Antonio's first freestanding
pediatric hospital. The campus formerly housed both a children's hospital and an acute care hospital; the latter facility was closed in July 2012. The $135 million renovation project will be completed next year.
The donation from San Antonio philanthropist Harvey Najim and the Najim Family Foundation follows a $3 million gift for the hospital from the USAA Foundation and a $20 million gift from the Goldsbury Foundation, both announced earlier this year.
Najim is founder and executive chairman of San Antonio-based Sirius Computer Solutions. Past Najim Family Foundation donations have funded an expansion and renovation of the Children's Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, the purchase of equipment for the facility and the hiring of Child Life staff at the hospital, to decrease pediatric patients' stress and anxiety.
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