The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, has announced a $4 million grant from the Carls Foundation in support of its campaign to build a new children's and women's hospital.

The new hospital will house the hospital's current services, as well as the Michigan Congenital Heart Center, the Birth Center, and the Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In addition, the grant will allow the hospital to establish one of only thirteen level-one pediatric trauma centers in the United States.

"Having lost their only child in infancy, William and Marie Carls experienced personally the need for advanced and readily available pediatric medical care and made it a principal mission of the foundation they established," said Elizabeth A. Stieg, executive director of the Detroit-based foundation. "The trustees of the Carls Foundation felt that the Mott Children's Hospital plans for a new facility are clearly needed and help fulfill that mission, and that William and Marie Carls would have been pleased by this grant."

Past grants from the foundation have allowed the hospital to advance research and care in the area of jaw-related birth defects and to establish a new diagnostic and treatment program for children at risk for profound hearing loss.