Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta wishes to thank Aflac and its associates for their tremendous ongoing support of the Aflac Cancer Center & Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the largest pediatric cancer centers in the United States. In 1995, Aflac and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta joined forces in the fight against childhood cancer and blood disorders by establishing the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service.
Aflac assumed a $3 million sponsorship of the center, which was then located at the Egleston campus of Children's. Aflac helped transform the facility into one of the most modern of its kind. In February of 1998, Egleston and Scottish Rite merged to become Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, with an Aflac Cancer Center at both campuses. Aflac's employees, executives, and sales associates have embraced the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service as the company's largest community project.
In addition to the company's initial donation to the renovation of the cancer center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Aflac employees help support patients and their families year-round through volunteer opportunities and fundraising events. Also, members of the Aflac sales force may elect to have monthly deductions from their checks and regularly engage in friendly competition among other Aflac associates to raise money for the Aflac Cancer Center.
Though it may be far from their own backyards, Aflac's sales force (with representatives in each of the fifty states) is aware of the national preeminence of the hospital and its treatment of children from all over the United States. In December 2001 Dan Amos, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aflac announced a gift of $10 million to the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. The gift is the largest in Aflac's history and is the largest corporate gift ever made to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Special Events
- Aflac Cancer Center Bingo
One Saturday a month, Aflac employee volunteers visit the Aflac Cancer Center Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and play Bingo with the patients.
- Holiday Card Sale
Each year, Aflac underwrites the Holiday Card program for the Aflac Cancer Center and coordinates the sale for Aflac employees with the help of numerous employee volunteers. Proceeds from the 2002 Holiday Card program will fund patient and family support services. The 2002 Holiday Card sales raised a total of $232,500.
- Braves Night
In an annual tradition that began in 1995, more than 100 patients, family members and medical staff from the Aflac Cancer Center enjoy a pregame party where patients and their families have an opportunity to meet Atlanta Braves players and get autographs. Patients and their families are then treated to the Atlanta Braves game.