$1.7M Donated to Arkansas Children’s Northwest

A rendering of the future Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital in Springdale

The Arkansas Children’s Foundation this week, in separate news releases, announced that the Whitaker Family Foundation of Fayetteville and businessman Sam Mathias have donated a combined $1.7 million to Arkansas Children’s Northwest hospital in Springdale.

The new $167 million, 233,613-SF hospital is set to open this month or in early February.

The Whitaker Family Foundation, a nonprofit focused on children’s health care and education, donated $1 million.

Mathias, who owns Today’s Bank of Huntsville and Mathias Properties of Springdale, donated $700,000. More than 20 years ago, his granddaughter, shortly after she was born, was a patient at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.

The gifts bring the total raised by the “Care Close to Home: The Campaign for Arkansas Children’s Northwest” to over $68 million.