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The Nemours Foundation
4600 Touchton Rd. East, Bldg. 200, Ste. 500
Jacksonville, FL 32246
FL Tel. 904-232-4100
Fax 904-232-4125

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.nemours.org
 Employees: 4,400

Even if their offspring are fanatical about Finding Nemo, parents of sick children may prefer finding Nemours. The Nemours Foundation operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware and dozens of pediatric clinics in Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania that treat acutely and chronically ill children. Nemours provides specialty pediatric services including orthopedics, cardiology, neurology, and oncology, and it has extensive research programs. It also operates a health clinic in Delaware that provides services to low-income elderly residents of the state. The foundation was created in 1936 through the will of chemicals pioneer Alfred I. duPont.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $635.0M

Officers:
Chairman: John S. Lord
President and CEO: David J. Bailey
EVP Health Operations and COO: Roy Proujansky

Competitors:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Christiana Care
Shriners Hospitals For Children

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The Nemours Foundation is a non-profit organization in Jacksonville, Florida, created by philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont in 1936, and dedicated to improving the health of children. The Foundation operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware; the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville and Nemours Children’s Clinics in Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania & New Jersey. They also sponsor the KidsHealth website, which provides information about the health, behavior, and development of children from birth to adulthood. The site has different content sections for children, teenagers and parents; approximately 500,000 people visit the link on weekdays.

The Nemours Mansion and Gardens is also run by the Nemours Foundation.

The foundation is the sole beneficiary of the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust, which had a value of $4.6 billion in early 2009.[1] du Pont’s will stipulated that the trust make an annual disbursement of an amount equal to 3% of the trust’s value. For 2009, that would be $138 million.

References

  1. ^ Florida Times-Union: January 29, 2009-It's grand; it's green, with lots in between by Steve Patterson

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