A Letter from the Foundation

Ihope you are settling into the new year and that your 2023 is off to a good start. This will be a year of excitement for Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Our newest research building will open in 2023. At seven stories tall, this new facility encompasses 285,000 square feet and will dramatically expand the research capabilities at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute. These new capabilities are vital for our extensive efforts to identify novel breakthroughs in the prevention and treatment of childhood disease. Research becomes medicine as it grows, evolves, and transforms.

Steve Testa President, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation

For example, February is American Heart Month and congenital heart defects remain the most common birth defect in the United States. Innovative research has enabled us to discover new strategies for treating these birth defects that allow infants to live healthy lives well into adulthood.

In this issue, you will meet Paul – a patient born with a Congenital Heart Defect who is a thriving boy - as well as learn how CHD patients treated as infants and children progress to maintaining their changing health needs as adults. You will also learn more about children and families finding care closer to home as we approach the one-year anniversary of the transition from Mercy Health Toledo Children’s to Nationwide Children’s Hospital – Toledo. And as mental health continues to be at the forefront of a national health crisis – we share access to resources that you might find helpful in your own community.

I thank you for your incredible support and commitment. You make our breakthroughs possible with your generosity and advocacy. Thank you for everything,

Steve Testa