Jude families seeking financial help through the online fundraiser GoFundMe, with half of the campaigns started in the past two years. We counted scores of other events like concerts and yard sales organized to help St.
Jude families in need. One family relied on a mixed martial arts fighter to help raise money for expenses like car repairs and cellphone bills, items that St. Jude would not cover. Further, ProPublica found, a substantial portion of the cost for treatment is paid not by St.
If a family shows up at St. Jude without insurance, a company hired by the charity helps them find it. Jude does cover copays and deductibles, an unusual benefit. Very little of what St. Jude raises from the public goes to pay for food, travel and housing for families, the investigation found. In written responses to ProPublica, lawyers for St. Jude and its fundraising arm, the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, or ALSAC, emphasized that countless families have benefited from the charity provided since the hospital opened its doors in It is unquestioned that St.
Jude has helped thousands of children and their families over the decades. Jude said it discloses the limits of its aid to families on its website and in material provided to those whose children are admitted to the hospital. That includes the rule Burt ran into, that the hospital covers the travel and housing costs of only one caregiver and one patient.
In some cases, hotel stays en route are provided only if families travel more than miles to get to St. Jude declined to explain how the law affects the amount or type of financial assistance it provides to families. When parents need additional financial help, St. Jude families? They still have to pay the rent on their apartment back in Augusta, Georgia. They still have to make their car payment.
Jude should be paying for all those expenses or not. After ProPublica provided St. Among the most significant changes are increasing travel benefits to two parents instead of one and covering regular trips to Memphis for siblings and other loved ones.
Both parents stopped working for a time, and people in their hometown raised cash to pay their bills. Her cancer relapsed the following year with several new, inoperable brain tumors. Burt said his credit score dropped so low that utility companies refused to set up service unless he first paid a deposit. He asked hospital officials if he could sleep in St. Burt said he was happy with the care St. Jude provided. Jude Thaddeus.
Jude and a fundraising organization to support it. Thomas, whose parents were Lebanese immigrants, recruited others who shared his Middle Eastern roots to help. Today, St. Jude is a specialty treatment and research center with about 5, employees and 73 beds. Though St. Jude raises money across the world, most of its patients come from Tennessee and surrounding states.
Patients from elsewhere are usually enrolled in clinical trials. The charity takes in so much money each year that it regularly steers hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to reserve accounts, the filings show. Overall, St. Jude meets Better Business Bureau guidelines, which call for charities to maintain reserves of less than three times total expenses, but other experts expressed alarm that the hospital had accumulated such a large sum of money.
The size of the St. She said a typical reserve for a nonprofit the size of St. Jude is one to two years of expenses. Donors generally want to know their dollars are being put to work, she said. The hospital said it needs a large reserve because its unique operating model relies on donations to fund annual operating costs. The hospital said it is also raising billions to fund the construction of new housing and research space, although its plans do not currently include spending any of the reserve on new facilities.
They pay for research staff and studies in part with donations from their local communities, often competing directly against St. Jude, according to her LinkedIn profile. Some doctors interviewed by ProPublica said they have encouraged donors to give their money to hospitals closer to home. Jude raises tens of thousands of dollars in his region that does little to benefit the children with cancer in his area since almost all are treated locally. Nearly all St. She added that no parent should have to take out a second mortgage or lose their job because their child is being treated at St.
Tolan did not return requests for comment. Catherine Rainey thought she would be free of financial worry when her 2-year-old daughter Harlee was admitted to St. Jude last year. They raise billions of dollars. But like many families, the Raineys discovered that St. Harlee ended up at St. The doctors there discovered a cancerous mass attached to her right kidney. Read our privacy policy to learn more. Grants and Charitable Donations. We Support the Community in a Variety of Ways.
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