Children's Hospital
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The Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children averaged 9,000 admissions last year, and more than 150,000 youngsters from all of Mississippi's 82 counties were treated in its clinics and emergency room. Batson Hospital has treated thousands of children stricken with leukemia and other cancers, helping to bring survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent to better than 70 percent in the last 30 years. The hospital treats all patients regardless of their ability to pay. And since the Batson Hospital shares its research with the international medical community, one child saved at Batson means thousands more saved around the world.
It Happens Every Day
Children are struck down by illness and injury. It may begin with a simple cough or an accident. And often it strikes with sudden, unrelenting violence. Thousands of Mississippi children and their families must deal with this reality each year. At the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, staff members work hard to overcome these obstacles. They cannot do it alone. It takes support from the community to keep the hospital on the cutting edge of contemporary health care.
