Two prominent Las Vegas community figures are lending their names to an ambitious fundraising campaign to build Southern Nevada\u2019s first stand-alone children\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n
MGM Resorts International President and CEO Bill Hornbuckle and his wife, Wendy, have been named co-chairs of the Nevada Campaign for Kids, a philanthropic push to support construction of Southern Nevada\u2019s first stand-alone children\u2019s <\/a>hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n During a press event Monday morning inside The Mansion at MGM Grand hotel-casino, the Hornbuckles said they wanted to get involved \u201cin order to make a difference of scale.\u201d<\/p>\n The Nevada Campaign for Kids initiative is being organized through the Intermountain Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Intermountain Health, and aims to generate funds for the planned $1 billion pediatric facility in Las Vegas. The project is expected to break ground in 2026 at UNLV\u2019s Harry Reid Research and Technology Park.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re proud to support Intermountain Health\u2019s vision for healthy children in Nevada, and to help rally our community around this vital cause,\u201d Bill Hornbuckle said. \u201cLike the health of our children, this campaign is bigger than one organization; it\u2019s an investment in Nevada\u2019s families, our friends and neighbors, our future workforce, families, and economic development. It will change lives, and it takes a community to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Nevada ranks 48th in the nation for pediatricians per capita, Intermountain said, and Las Vegas is the only metro area in the country with a population of at least 2 million without a freestanding children\u2019s hospital. In 2023, more than 29,000 children traveled outside of Nevada for comprehensive specialty care, according to the health care provider.<\/p>\n Wendy Hornbuckle said it was time to \u201cgo to work,\u201d to ensure that those Nevada families had a viable health care option closer to home.<\/p>\n \u201cAs parents and proud Nevadans, we know there\u2019s nothing more important than a child\u2019s health, and we are inspired by Intermountain\u2019s vision to create a place of healing and hope for children and their families,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Intermountain officials hope to open the children\u2019s hospital by <\/a>2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cNevada elected officials, the health care community, and local leaders have been aware for many years of the need to bring a comprehensive children\u2019s hospital to Las Vegas and improve health for children overall,\u201d said Mitch Cloward, president of Intermountain Health\u2019s Desert Region, which includes Southern Nevada and southwest Utah.<\/p>\n The hospital is expected to create more than $841 million in annual economic output, according to an independent research study conducted by Applied Analysis. Officials said the hospital will create roughly 1,300 jobs.<\/p>\n David Flood, president of Intermountain Foundation and chief development officer of Intermountain Health, said that, \u201cWith the Hornbuckles\u2019 trusted leadership and guidance, we will make transformative health care possible and accessible to every child in Nevada. Together, we will make history while impacting generations.\u201d<\/p>\n Contact David Danzis at ddanzis@reviewjournal.com<\/a> or 702-383-0378. Follow @AC2Vegas_Danzis<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two prominent Las Vegas community figures are lending their names to an ambitious fundraising campaign to build Southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-258403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}