Kaaren Biggs, her family and Packaging Specialties Inc. donated $2 million to Arkansas Children's Northwest.
"Throughout the years, our family and our Packaging Specialties families have needed the specialty care provided by children's hospitals," Kaaren Biggs, owner of Packaging Specialties Inc., said in a news release. "We are grateful to support Arkansas Children's Northwest and the future generations of children it will serve."
Major gifts
Fundraising for Arkansas Children’s Northwest’s hospital in Springdale is the Care Close to Home campaign. Major contributions include:
• Tyson Family and Tyson Foods: $15 million
• Walmart and Walmart Foundation: $8 million
• Robin and Gary George, Cathy and David Evans and families: $7.5 million
• J.B. Hunt Transport Services: $5 million
• Will Golf for Kids and Color of Hope: $5 million
• Walton Family Foundation in honor of Amelia Faulk: $3 million
• Kaaren Biggs, the Biggs family and Packaging Specialties Inc.: $2 million
• Endeavor Foundation: $2 million
• Fadil Bayyari family: $1 million
• Cynthia and Kirk Dupps: $1 million
• Joanie and Jon Dyer: $1 million
• Robin and Gary George: $1 million
• Mildred and Jarrell Gray estate: $1 million
• Karen and Darren Horton: $1 million
• J.B. and Johnelle Hunt family: $1 million
• Leonard Johnson Trust: $1 million
• Premier Concepts: $1 million
• Schmieding Foundation: $1 million
• Anstaff Bank: $250,000
• Central States Manufacturing: $250,000
• Hogs for Hope: $250,000
• Aaron and Jaye T. Marshal: $250,000
• Bikes, Blues & BBQ: $200,000
• Black Hills Energy: $100,000
• Steve and Sharon Stafford family: $100,000
Source: Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Packaging Specialties Inc. supplies more than 27 different industries with flexographic printed films.
The conference space at Arkansas Children's Northwest will be named in honor of the Biggs family and Packaging Specialties Inc.
"This generous gift from the Biggs Family and Packaging Specialties Inc. is tremendous," Fred Scarborough, chief development officer for Arkansas Children's and president of Arkansas Children's Foundation, said in the release.
The Springdale hospital is set to open in January and will include:
• 24 inpatient beds
• 24-hour pediatric emergency department
• Pediatric surgery unit with five operating rooms
• Outpatient clinic with 30 exam rooms supporting more than 20 subspecialty areas and a general pediatric clinic
• Full range of ancillary and diagnostic services
• Pastoral care, outdoor gardens and nature trails
• Helipad and refueling station supporting Angel One, a pediatric intensive care transport services with more than 2,000 transports annually.
Arkansas Children's Northwest is being built on 37 acres of land on Interstate 49 between Don Tyson Parkway and Sunset Avenue, across from Arvest Ballpark. Robin and Gary George, Cathy and David Evans and their families donated the land.
The project is expected to cost $427.7 million in construction, technology, equipment, and operating expenses over the next five years, and create 250 new jobs.
Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects of Fayetteville and Little Rock and FKP Architects of Houston are designing the hospital and Nabholz Construction is overseeing construction.
NW News on 03/29/2017