[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by valuemkt

Flabbergasted by this post.. let's take the adult / geriatric side first.. I'm sure if you had brain cancer, you would never think of going to MD Anderson.. or if you had a serious heart problem you;d never consider Cleveland Clinic.. or need a life saving liver transplant, you;d never go to Pittsburgh. or consider Mayo in Rochester for a complex diagnosis.. You;d just stay in the local Villages Hospital, because afterall, all hospitals must be the same, and have the same quality of doctors, right ? And all hospitals do the same quality of research, and invent life saving procedures and drug protocols . right ?

Most people in the Villages are of an age where they remember the Lebanese comedian Danny Thomas (yea, Marlo's dad).. He;s the one that founded and funded St Jude's in Memphis. They are, without question, the leading children's cancer research hospital in the country, if not the world. Why did he name the hospital St Jude's ? Because in the Catholic faith, St Jude was the patron saint of lost causes and hopeless cases.

St jude's shares the results of their research with Children's hospitals throughout the country.

Do they heavily market ? Yep.. Is it money well spent and contributed ?? Sure is, in my book.

Sorry you were flabbergasted. Just trying to get some information. The latest rankings for children's hospitals in 2019-2020 by US News and Reports shows that Boston Children's Hospital is number one. Neither St. Jude nor Shriners made their top ten.