Talk:St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Edit Request

Hello! I have a few more requests I would like to see made to the page:

1. Add the following information to the end of the Hospital functions and effects section:

All medically eligible patients who are accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family’s ability to pay. Families of patients at St. Jude do not pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance, and families without insurance do not need to pay for any expense. All families do not need to pay for travel, housing, or food.

Reason: Provide more context surrounding how the hospital functions.

2. Move the following information from the Philanthropic aid section to after the first sentence of the Funding section:

From 2000 to 2005, 83.7% of the funds received by St. Jude went to operations or investments. From 2002 to 2004, 47% of program expenses went to patient care and 41% to research. In 2012, 81 cents of every dollar donated to St. Jude went directly to its research and treatment.

Reason: This information is more related to the hospital's funding as opposed to philanthropy.

3. Remove the following information from the Funding section:

In 2019, ALSAC raised $1.9 billion from donations, of which $975 million (51%) went to St. Jude. The rest of the funds were either spent on functional expenses for ALSAC or added to their fund balance, which totaled $5.7 billion at the end of 2019.

Reason: This information will change year over year and will need to be updated. To ensure there are no accuracy issues it makes sense to remove it entirely.

4. Add the following information to the end of the Funding section:

In July 2022, St. Jude updated its 6-year financial plan, stating that $1.4 billion dollars would be invested into the institution's operating and capital budget. As part of this expansion, its renovation and capital funding increased to $2.3 billion, with a focus on investments in fundamental science and training for medical professionals on an international level.

Reason: This helps expand information on the hospital's funding and what is to come in the future without having to constantly update it year after year.

Thank you so much for your help!

AliceStacey (talk) 18:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC) AliceStacey (talk) 18:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

References

Reply 29-NOV-2023

Below you will see where proposals from your request have been quoted with reviewer decisions and feedback inserted underneath, either accepting, declining or otherwise commenting upon your proposal(s). Please read the enclosed notes within the proposal review section below for information on each request.

Edit request review 29-NOV-2023

All medically eligible patients who are accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family’s ability to pay. Families of patients at St. Jude do not pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance, and families without insurance do not need to pay for any expense. All families do not need to pay for travel, housing, or food  Declined. From 2000 to 2005, 83.7% of the funds received by St. Jude went to operations or investments. From 2002 to 2004, 47% of program expenses went to patient care and 41% to research. In 2012, 81 cents of every dollar donated to St. Jude went directly to its research and treatment.  Approved. Remove the following information from the Funding section: In 2019, ALSAC raised $1.9 billion from donations, of which $975 million (51%) went to St. Jude. The rest of the funds were either spent on functional expenses for ALSAC or added to their fund balance, which totaled $5.7 billion at the end of 2019.  Declined. In July 2022, St. Jude updated its 6-year financial plan, stating that $1.4 billion dollars would be invested into the institution's operating and capital budget. As part of this expansion, its renovation and capital funding increased to $2.3 billion, with a focus on investments in fundamental science and training for medical professionals on an international level. Clarification needed. ___________

Regards,  Spintendo  04:12, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Spintendo: where was it decided that the article shouldn't make a blanket statement on whether patients must pay? Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Edit Request

Hi there,

I have made some adjustments to provide clarification to a few of my previous requests:

1. Add the following sentence to the end of the Hospital functions and effects section:

Patients who are accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family’s finances.

Reason: Rewrote based on editor feedback and adding this to the article provides more context surrounding the hospital's functions.

2. Change the section title from “Affiliated hospitals” to Affiliated institutions”

Reason: St. Jude has both hospitals and institutions, however institutions addresses each in the U.S. and internationally.

3. Remove the word “Hospital” from the end of the following sentence in the Affiliated institutions section:

Both St. Jude and Le Bonheur are teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. University of Tennessee physicians training in pediatrics, surgery, radiology, and other specialties undergo service rotations at St. Jude Hospital.

Reason: Hospital is not needed in this sentence.

4. Change the following sentence in the Affiliated institutions section from:

The center is an affiliate of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and works in association with the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC).

To:

The center is a partner of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and works in association with the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC).

Reason: St. Jude has formal affiliate clinics in the U.S. but not overseas, so partner is more appropriate. This also addresses editor feedback of too many sources by removing one.

5. Change the following sentence in the Funding section from:

In 2002 to 2004, 47% of program expenses went to patient care and 41% to research.

To:

From 2002 to 2004, 47% of program expenses went to patient care and 41% to research.

Reason: Fix minor grammatical issue.

6. Add the following information to the bottom of the Funding section:

In July 2022, St. Jude updated its 6-year financial plan and stated that $1.4 billion dollars would be invested, increasing the institution's operating and capital budget to $2.3 billion. The additional funds will support future construction and renovations for new patient housing and clinical facilities. There is also a focus on research involving structural biology, microscopy, and global childhood cancer care, as well as training for medical professionals on an international level.

Reason: Rewrote based on editor feedback. This helps expand information on the hospital's funding and what is to come in the future without having to constantly update it year after year.

Thank you!

AliceStacey (talk) 19:21, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

References

 Doing... Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@AliceStacey:

1. Currently discussing with Spintendo.
2.  Done
3.  Done
4.  Not done I've found another source that calls them "affiliated". The language secondary sources use is more likely to be closer to what readers would expect the terms to mean.
5.  Done
6. Hm... I don't really know if the mention bears due weight. It's a bunch of smaller health-focused news organizations (that seem to do promotion on the side? Their about us pages are weird) that are making passing mentions of the event that just parrot your announcement on it. There's an AP News article but it's the same thing.

NB while looking for omissions I found this ProPublica article. Probably worth mentioning. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:15, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Edit request

Hi there, I have one request I am looking to have added to the page.

Can the sentence below be added to the end of the Hospital functions and effects section of the article:

Patients who are accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family's finances.

Reason: Expand information in the section and provide details that are relevant to how the hospital operates.

Thank you so much!

AliceStacey (talk) 21:08, 26 November 2024 (UTC) AliceStacey (talk) 21:08, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

References

Reply 27-NOV-2024

  Edit request declined  

• The claim that "patients accepted for treatment are treated without regard to the family's finances" is too broad a statement for the article to be making. How the subject organization chooses which families to treat, and by which rubric the organization uses to effect that choice, is ultimately unknowable, despite what any one reference may state (with all due respect to Philanthropyroundtable).
• The claim that the subject organization treats patients without regard to their financing can be read two different ways. The Propublica article, for example, reports on one family who had a child chosen for treatment. Because the subject organization paid for one parent's housing but not the second parents', and because that setup mandated by the subject organization required the family to hastily improvise secondary housing owing to their financial situation, it could logically be stated that St Jude accepts patients for treatment without regard to the family's finances. I doubt that this alternate characterization of the proposed claim statement is one that the subject organization would agree with. And yet, that statement could be read by St. Jude's Wikipedia article readers in either way.

Regards,  Spintendo  12:41, 27 November 2024 (UTC)