Children's Healthcare, Emory get $4 million gift for new building

By Shelia M. Poole

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta-based Zeist Foundation  recently awarded a $4 million grant to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University to help fund construction of a new health science research building.

More than half  of the five-story facility will focus on pediatric research. There will be a two-story working bridge that will connect it to the Emory-Children's Center, a pediatric outpatient center. The bridge will be named in honor of  the late Dr. George W. Brumley, who served as head of  Emory University's Department of Pediatrics and as medical director at Children's at Egleston from 1981 to 1995.

Children's Healthcare and Emory broke ground on the new facility in June, with an expected completion in April 2013.   The total cost is about $90 million and will be financed primarily through philanthropic contributions, including a $25 million grant from the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation for the joint Emory-Children's research initiative.

The Zeist Foundation seeks to improve the lives of children, youth and families in the areas of health, education and arts and culture.