First lady Jill Biden traveled to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee on Friday to meet with Ukrainian children with cancer and their families fleeing the war and seeking treatment in the U.S.
Biden was greeted when she arrived at the Memphis hospital by president and CEO James Downing; Rick Shadyac, CEO of ALSAC, which raises funds for St. Jude; and actress Marlo Thomas, the daughter of hospital founder and late actor Danny Thomas.
Improving the lives of children with cancer is a main goal of St. Jude, founded in 1962. Using mostly private donations, families with children who are patients at St. Jude never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing and food. Marlo Thomas is St. Jude’s national outreach director. Biden also told hospital officials and reporters that she was inspired by the work done by St. Jude and how it turns “devastation into hope.”
The four St. Jude patients traveled aboard a U.S. government-operated medical transport aircraft from Krakow, along with a St. Jude doctor who had been in Poland with them, the hospital said. A second group of Ukrainian patients could arrive at the hospital next week, Downing said. The U.S. has granted patients and their families accelerated immigration parole status, Downing said.
“In those early hours of the war, it was clear that, over time, children were going to have to be evacuated,” Downing said. Part of the drive to help Ukrainian children with cancer involves translating their medical records. St Jude established a network of 200 translators across the world who work on patient records.
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