The Tucson Medical Center Foundation has launched a capital campaign to fund its new Joel M. Childers M.D. Women’s Center.
The fundraising goal is $12.5 million and so far, $9 million has been raised by the community. The campaign is called “Making HerStory.”
The new center named for a popular physician and medical educator. Childers helped pioneer the use of laparoscopic surgery for gynecologic cancer, becoming an expert who toured the world to teach the technique.
He died in a motorcycle crash at the age 47 in 2002.
TMC, which delivers more babies than any other local hospital, will be building out its southeast entrance with new construction, as well as renovating existing space. It will create a new Women's Center entrance facing Craycroft Road.
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A fundraising campaign co-chaired by Dr. Gayle Dean and Jon Young has already attracted several donations. Among the large donors are Chuck and Norma Childers, Tucson Foundations, Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation, Mel and Enid Zuckerman, the physicians of Old Pueblo Anesthesia, the TMC Auxiliary and the physicians of Radiology, Ltd.
More information is available from the TMC Foundation at https://www.tmcaz.com/TMCFoundation/MakingHerStory, emailing foundation@tmcaz.com or by calling 324-3411.