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New Mott facility equips U-M to save young lives

Photo Courtesy of the UMHS
Michigan Difference Campaign

The new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital will provide a leading-edge work environment for skilled physicians like Dr. Edward Bove.

Heart surgery. Imagine performing it on an organ the size of a walnut.

In 2006, Gary and Karen Kligman of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., learned their newborn daughter, Amelia, had a congenital cardiac malformation that required open-heart surgery. “What was incredible,” Gary Kligman recalls, “was that everyone said to me that one of the best—if not the best—cardiovascular surgeons in the whole country was right at our back door.”

That doctor was Edward L. Bove at the University’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. He and his colleagues from the Hospital’s Congenital Heart Center treated 850 patients last year, defying the odds with an astounding 95 percent survival rate. Now U-M supporters have teamed up to help the University provide Bove and his colleagues with a state-of-the art facility where they can save even more lives. The new Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital will include 13 pediatric operating rooms, four pediatric surgical procedure rooms and 348 private inpatient beds.

Key contributors to this effort include:

• Regent Emeritus David (ABED ’74, CERTT EDUC ’74) and Jan Brandon and retired Wolverines coach Lloyd Carr and his wife, Laurie (AB DRBN ’86, CERTT EDUC ’86), co-chairs of the Hospital’s Campaign for Children ’86) and Helen (MBA ’87) Vlasic and family
• The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• The Carls Foundation of Detroit
• Dr. Ernest Sorini
• David (BGS ’85) and Joan (AB ’87) Evans
• Raghuveer (MBA ‘81) and Rashida Mendu and the Samara Mendu Fellowship Fund
• Wolverine football stars Brian Griese (AB ’97) and Steve Hutchinson (BGS ’05)

These generous donors and many more alongside them are helping lifesaving experts like Dr. Edward Bove do their best work.

“I would put Mott Hospital and Michigan’s medical system up against any in the entire world,” Gary Kligman says. “I just can’t imagine any hospital being better than this.”

Impact by the Numbers

• $246,500 investments in three early-stage Michigan companies by the Frankel Commercialization Fund, a student-managed, pre-seed venture capital fund established in the campaign that develops the analytical and investment skills of Ross School MBAs.