A team of 75 employees at McCarthy were honored recently by Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego for raising a total of $13,725 as part of its second annual SeaWorld Shamu & You Family Walk benefiting the hospital. McCarthy’s “Rady Children’s Hospital Construction Team” raised the largest amount by a single team.
A special reception, attended by participants of the McCarthy Rady Children’s Hospital Construction Team and representatives of Rady Children’s Hospital, was held February 4 in front of the hospital’s Inspiration Fountain. Rady Children’s Hospital Vice President of Facilities Tim Jacoby and Director of Corporate Development Mindy Collins were on hand to present McCarthy participants with a framed certificate and various prizes for their fundraising efforts.
Because Rady Children’s Hospital is a non-profit hospital, it depends on the community to help fund critically needed care and services. The one-mile SeaWorld Shamu & You Family Walk successfully raised more than $166,000 for the Rady Children’s Hospital’s patient care fund.
McCarthy is the general contractor for the new $260 million, 279,000-square-foot Patient Care Pavilion at Rady Children’s Hospital. The facility will house a much-needed surgical center, 84 medical-surgical beds, a neonatal intensive care center, and a cancer center to aid in fulfilling the increasing demand for children’s critical care in the San Diego area. The facility will include 16 operating rooms with associated support departments, a 28-bed hematology and oncology unit, a 10-bed bone marrow transplant intensive care unit, a 32-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and 84 acuity adaptable medical surgery beds. One major goal for the project is to design and build a facility that can attain the designation of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified. Completion of the project is scheduled for the summer of 2010.
“It was gratifying to get a team together for such a worthy cause,” said McCarthy’s Project Director Steve Van Dyke, who was the top individual fundraiser for the Rady Children’s Hospital Construction Team. “We get to see the positive impact that Rady Children’s Hospital has on children’s lives every day, and we wanted to help out, too.”
Van Dyke alone raised $4,200 for the SeaWorld Shamu & You Family Walk. McCarthy Assistant Project Manager Jason Mrozek, who works alongside Van Dyke at the McCarthy construction trailer on site of the new Rady Children’s Hospital Patient Care Pavilion and whose nine-month-old daughter, Bailey, has been an ongoing patient at the hospital, was the second highest individual fundraiser for the team, bringing in $2,800.
The 3rd annual SeaWorld Shamu & You Family Walk will be held in October 2009.
About McCarthy
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the nation’s 10th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2008) and has been ranked among the top five national healthcare builders by Modern Healthcare since the magazine began its annual ranking more than 30 years ago. In Southern California, the firm has completed over $2.4 billion in healthcare work for the region’s most elite healthcare institutions. In addition to San Diego, McCarthy has offices in Newport Beach, Sacramento and San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Dallas; St. Louis and Atlanta. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com.
