Children’s & Women’s Hospital awarded $100,000 grant from Hyundai Hope on Wheels
The impact grant will support ongoing efforts to make sure childhood cancer patients have what they need throughout their treatment.
To help support pediatric cancer patients, USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital, part of the University of South Alabama's academic health system, has been awarded an impact grant for $100,000 from Hyundai Hope on Wheels. This contribution will support ongoing efforts to make sure childhood cancer patients have what they need throughout their treatment.
Children’s & Women’s Hospital takes a holistic approach to cancer care. In addition to treating a pediatric oncology patient’s clinical needs, the approach includes utilizing child life and other specialists who provide procedural preparation and support, therapeutic play and other therapeutic activities for patients receiving hospital and emergency care.
"Hyundai Hope on Wheels is honored to support esteemed hospitals and institutions such as Children’s & Women’s Hospital to fund research that fosters innovation and medical advancements for pediatric cancer patients," said John Guastaferro, executive director, Hyundai Hope on Wheels. "We are grateful for the unwavering dedication and life-saving efforts that will bring us closer to a world without childhood cancer.”
After accidents, cancer is the second leading cause of death in children ages 1 to 14, according to the American Cancer Society. Approximately 1,040 children under 15 are expected to die from cancer this year.
“We are incredibly grateful for the generous grant from Hyundai Hope on Wheels,” said Deborah Browning, MSN, RN, CENP, chief executive officer at Children’s & Women’s Hospital. “This funding will help to support the important work our multidisciplinary teams perform every day to care for our patients' clinical needs, but also their psychosocial and emotional needs. Those needs are most often met through our Mapp Child and Family Life Program team members, who strive to offer hope and strength when patients and their caregivers can use it most.”
Hyundai Hope on Wheels
Hyundai Hope on Wheels is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is committed to finding a cure for childhood cancer. Launched in 1998, Hyundai Hope on Wheels provides grants to eligible institutions nationwide that are pursuing critical research aimed at improving treatments and saving lives. Hyundai Hope on Wheels is one of the largest nonprofit funders of pediatric cancer research in the country. Primary funding for Hyundai Hope on Wheels comes from Hyundai Motor America and its more than 850 U.S. dealers. In 2025, Hyundai Hope on Wheels will reach a lifetime donation total of $277 million in support of more than 1,400 childhood cancer research grants to over 175 hospitals and research institutions.
USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital
USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital – part of the University of South Alabama, the Flagship of the Gulf Coast – is the only stand-alone inpatient facility in Alabama dedicated to providing the most advanced and comprehensive healthcare to the region’s children and women. Services range from the region’s only pediatric emergency center open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, staffed with specially trained emergency medicine physicians and other providers to the region’s only level III neonatal intensive care unit, small baby unit and pediatric intensive care unit, where the area’s sickest children receive the most advanced care. The highly trained staff delivers more babies annually than any other hospital in the Mobile area and includes the region’s only high-risk obstetrics program.
