December Giving and Growing

Cutting the ribbon on the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower at Children’s of Mississippi are, from left, the Sandersons’ daughters Julie Richard, Emily Whitaker and Katy Creath; patient Miracle Brown and her grandmother Aretha Edwards; state Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Champion Sybil Cumberland and her mother Tara Cumberland; Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine; former Gov. Phil Bryant; and Melanie Morgan, board chair of Friends of Children’s Hospital. Behind them stand leaders in medicine and government.

Ribbon-cutting celebrates historic day

Published on Tuesday, December 8, 2020

By: Annie Oeth, aoeth@umc.edu

The snip of a ribbon adorned with the colorful Children’s of Mississippi logo signaled the beginning of a new era of pediatric care in the state.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony, conducted Oct. 13 with limited in-person attendance and livestreamed on Facebook, celebrated the completion of the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower at Children’s of Mississippi on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

“Today is about dreams and possibilities,” said Dr. LouAnn Woodward, UMMC vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. “Dreams are being realized and possibilities have turned into bricks and mortar.”