Harper Morgan, left, a affected person at Intermountain Main Youngsters’s Hospital, will get a hug from Andie Pedersen, who's holding a portray by Harper, as Andie Pedersen’s husband, Todd, stands behind them throughout a press convention on the web site of the brand new Intermountain Main Youngsters’s Hospital in Lehi on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. Through the press convention, the Pedersens introduced a $35 million reward to Intermountain Healthcare’s Main Promise to assist assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Gail Miller talks with Todd and Andie Pedersen after the announcement that the Pedersens are serving to assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids on Monday in Lehi. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
Gail Miller stands with Harper Morgan, who's a affected person at Main Youngsters’s Hospital, as they announce a significant donation from the Todd and Andie Pedersen household to assist assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids on Monday in Lehi on the building web site for the brand new hospital. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
The brand new Main Youngsters’s Hospital in Lehi on Monday. The hospital introduced a significant donation from the Todd and Andie Pedersen household to assist assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
A Utah household is donating $35 million to Main Youngsters's Hospital within the hope of inspiring others to open their wallets to enhance youngsters's well being care within the rising southern finish of Salt Lake County.
Todd Pedersen, founder and chairman of Vivint Sensible Residence, and his spouse, Andie Pedersen, mentioned they had been on the lookout for the most effective long-term service venture for his or her household.
After chatting with businesswoman and philanthropist Gail Miller about Main Youngsters's Hospital's initiative to enhance well being care for youths, "I believe all of us felt strongly about it, and I believe at that time, it was a no brainer," Andie Pedersen mentioned Monday because the couple and others introduced the donation on the building web site of the hospital's new Lehi location.
Katy Welkie, CEO of Intermountain Main Youngsters's Hospital and vp of Intermountain Youngsters's Well being, famous this yr marks the one hundredth anniversary of the hospital "and its mission to take care of and assist the kids of the Mountain West."
In January 2020, the hospital introduced "a promise to construct a mannequin well being system for kids in Utah, within the Mountain West, that will function a job mannequin for your complete United States," she added.
The Lehi location is now midway full, she mentioned, and the constructing is anticipated to open in early 2024 to serve youngsters within the space.
Andie and Todd Pedersen "need one thing that can have an actual, lasting and life-giving influence on children for many years to come back," Welkie mentioned.
Gail Miller talks with Todd and Andie Pedersen after the announcement that the Pedersens are serving to assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids on Monday in Lehi.
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Particulars of how the $35 million might be used weren't launched on Monday, however hospital officers mentioned they are going to announce extra subsequent month. An inpatient tower on the Lehi hospital might be named for the Pedersens, Welkie famous, explaining that the hospital would not have been potential with out individuals just like the Millers and Pedersens.
Miller mentioned one among her household's guiding ideas — although lofty and "most likely unattainable" — "is to go about doing good till there's an excessive amount of good on this planet."
"However there is not any hurt in attempting," she mentioned.
Miller emphasised the significance of the brand new hospital, as new houses "are popping up in every single place" round it.
The hospital will assist sufferers like Harper Morgan, 10, who stood smiling with Miller as she spoke through the information convention. Harper was identified with leukemia when she was 4 years previous.
"She remembers being scared after studying about her analysis, and when she first began going to Main Youngsters's Hospital," Miller mentioned.
It was a scary expertise for Harper to be on the hospital with individuals she did not know. "However the employees instantly put her comfy, and as soon as she grew to become accustomed to the docs, she trusted them," Miller mentioned.
Now Harper is finished together with her most cancers remedy, and "she is stuffed with life and power, and her dad calls her a complete warrior."
Harper lives close to the brand new hospital, and as soon as the Lehi location opens, she will not have to go to Salt Lake Metropolis if she wants follow-up remedy, Miller famous.
Gail Miller stands with Harper Morgan, who's a affected person at Main Youngsters’s Hospital, as they announce a significant donation from the Todd and Andie Pedersen household to assist assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids on Monday in Lehi on the building web site for the brand new hospital.
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"This new hospital campus is a key piece of a a lot bigger imaginative and prescient, and it should distinguish Utah and the intermountain space as a mannequin for built-in, high-quality pediatric care," Miller mentioned.
Harper offered a present to the Pedersens that she mentioned is from her "favourite Halloween film."
"Ought to we be scared?" Todd Pedersen quipped, earlier than Harper offered the couple with a portray she created of "The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas."
Andie Pedersen mentioned her household needed to donate their cash to inpatient remedy to allow them to go to sufferers and get to know them.
Todd Pedersen mentioned he tries to emulate what his mother and father taught him about "doing good for others … not simply financially … how we take care of others, the time we put into others, the respect that we give them."
"For me, it's so cool to dwell in a neighborhood the place ... we've individuals surrounding us desirous about the way forward for this neighborhood and the way forward for the kids of this neighborhood with regard to this Main Youngsters's Hospital," he mentioned.
His spouse mentioned they had been at a spot of their lives the place they needed to provide earlier than constructing a brand new dwelling or spending cash in another means.
The brand new Main Youngsters’s Hospital in Lehi on Monday. The hospital introduced a significant donation from the Todd and Andie Pedersen household to assist assist an initiative to construct the nation’s mannequin well being system for kids.
Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
"I suppose all of us felt like this could come earlier than the rest in our life," she mentioned.
Todd Pedersen mentioned they've had associates and speedy household who've benefited from the providers of Main Youngsters's Hospital. They needed to set an instance for different households in the neighborhood who've been "blessed" financially, of which he famous there are a lot of in Utah's tech sector.
He described the donation as an funding that serves "as many individuals within the greatest means potential."