The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, has announced a $25 million grant to the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital to support the construction of a state-of-the-art building for its children's and women's health services division. The grant is the largest ever to the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers, part of the U-M Health Care System, and the largest single grant in the Mott Foundation's history.

In 2004, 11,519 children were admitted to or born at the hospital's current children's and women's facility, which Charles Stewart Mott helped to establish forty years ago with a $6.5 million grant. There were, in addition, 350,000 outpatient visits by children and infants to the hospital's clinics, compared with 25,000 in the late 1960s. To meet the growing need, the new facility will provide a larger home and more comfortable and attractive facilities for inpatient and outpatient services provided at the current Mott Hospital, the Birth Center, and the Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

"We consider this grant to be an important legacy to honor Mr. Mott and his strong, lifelong interest in the well-being of children," said foundation president William S. White. "This is unusual for us because we don't normally support 'bricks and mortar' projects outside Flint. But we are extremely pleased to be part of such a bold step to ensure that children and families in Michigan and the United States have access to such an excellent facility and superior staff."