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UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital has received the largest individual donation in its history, $17 million dollars to further its work in childhood, adolescent and young adult cancers.

The donation came from Char and Chuck Fowler, whose daughter Angie died of melanoma at age 14.

“Angie was very willing to try everything and did it with a smile as much as she could,” Chuck Fowler said. Unfortunately, she lost her battle about seven months after she was diagnosed.

The hospital will use the donation to establish the Angie Fowler Child & Young Adult Cancer Institute, which will include a new dedicated outpatient treatment facility and an expanded inpatient unit for pediatric and young adult patients, along with a rooftop garden.

Dr. Kenneth Cooke, director of the hospital’s pediatric blood and marrow transplant program, said the gift puts Rainbow in the “forefront of cutting edge therapy for that population of patients.”

article courtesy of Newsnet5.com

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