Dell Children's Foundation
About UsBringing help, hope, and healing to our children.
Our Purpose
Dell Children’s Foundation works with our generous philanthropic community and their passion to invest in the future of our children’s health in Central Texas through Dell Children’s Medical Center.
Dell Children’s relies on support from the community to ensure our doors stay open and that no child is ever turned away regardless of their family’s ability to pay. Roughly 70% of Dell Children’s patients are under-insured or uninsured, and we could not provide the same level of world class care to every child without philanthropic support.
Dell Children’s Foundation is part of the Ascension Texas Foundations who raise the funds and awareness necessary to operate and advance the Ascension Seton network of hospitals. Learn more at ascensiontexasfoundations.org.
Our Impact
- More than $252M raised since 1996.
- In the last decade, there have been more than 1.7M patient visits at Dell Children’s Medical Center.
- Since opening (2007), 104,124 surgeries have been performed and there have been 948,041 emergency room visits.
- In its first year, the Grace Grego Maxwell Mental Health Unit at Dell Children’s served more than 10,000 young people and their families.
Our History
Established in 1987, the Dell Children’s Medical Center (DCMC) Foundation began as the Children’s Hospital Foundation supporting the Children’s Hospital of Austin, a department of Brackenridge. At that time, Brackenridge Hospital was owned and managed by the City of Austin, but in order to improve the level of care provided, the City of Austin asked Seton to take over management. As soon as Seton began managing Brackenridge, the Seton Foundations began raising funds to support the hospital.
Our History
Established in 1987, the Dell Children’s Medical Center (DCMC) Foundation began as the Children’s Hospital Foundation supporting the Children’s Hospital of Austin, a department of Brackenridge. At that time, Brackenridge Hospital was owned and managed by the City of Austin, but in order to improve the level of care provided, the City of Austin asked Seton to take over management. As soon as Seton began managing Brackenridge, the Seton Foundations began raising funds to support the hospital.
In the early 2000’s, Seton alongside the Central Texas community realized the crucial need for a state-of-the-art children’s hospital to meet the demands of our growing community. With the extreme generosity and support of our community and a grand vision of world-class pediatric care in our own backyard, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas opened on June 30, 2007, becoming the only dedicated, freestanding pediatric facility in the region.
Dell Children’s Medical Center Foundation works with our generous philanthropic community and their passion to invest in the future of our children’s health in Central Texas through Dell Children’s Medical Center. Through philanthropy, the Central Texas community helped build this outstanding regional facility. Our goal is to help make it one of the top children’s hospitals in the country.
Dell Children’s is a tremendous asset to our community. The state-of-the-art facility provides exceptional care to thousands of children and their families close to home. It continues the legacy of outstanding service of Children’s Hospital of Austin (closed on July 1, 2007) with new space, new technology, new programs – and more hearts and hands to make it all happen.
Together, we are creating a new standard in pediatric care. We are growing a world-class medical center dedicated to the care of children and adolescents, regardless of their families’ ability to pay. Your support of Dell Children’s Medical Center Foundation offers help, hope, and healing to our children.
Dell Children’s Foundation Board of Trustees
Current Members
Matt Flake, Board Chair
Q2
Nicole Covert, Vice Chair
LBJ Foundation
Kyle Gauthreaux, Treasurer
UBS
Joe Price, Secretary
Entrepreneur
Jason Barany
Aero Capital Solutions, Inc.
Sabrina Brown
Consultant & Lobbyist
Blake Chandlee
TikTok
Bob Cole
Austin Radio Network
Ned Furst, M.D.
US Anesthesia Partners
John J. Gilluly, III
DLA Piper
Lori Johnson
Philanthropist
Matt Johnson
Silicon Labs
Garheng Kong
HealthQuest Capital
Daniel Kozmetsky
RGK Ranch
Marcella Maxwell Keebler
Dell Children’s | Dell Medical School
Valerie Parker
Springhouse Foundation
Bhavesh Patel
Blue Origin
Amy Porter
Skylark Private Equity Partners
Joe Ross
CSID
Yuniedth Steen
Philanthropist
Anne Teel
Dell Technologies
Todd Wallace
JLL
Shelby Wanstrath
Vista Equity Partners
Evelyn Wiedeman
Philanthropist
Leslie Wingo
Sanders/Wingo
Life Trustees
Luci Baines Johnson
Lori Barr, M.D.
Tim Crowley
Susan Dell
Mary Nell Frucella
Rudy Garza
Morris Gottesman
Marci Henna
Betty Himmelblau
Neal T. (Buddy) Jones
Tom Kite, Jr.
Jim Kozlowsky
Cindy Kozmetsky
Jan Lindelow
T. Nyle Maxwell, Jr.
Barbara Paul
Juan Portillo
Pat Robertson
Karen Teel, M.D.
Alan Topfer
Dell Children’s Foundation Team
Susan Hewlitt, MSHCT
Executive Director
SChewlitt@ascension.org
Suellen Brown
Director of Development
SABrown@ascension.org
Megan Campuzano
Senior Director of Annual Giving
mjcampuzano@ascension.org
Leigh Cason
Development Coordinator
leigh.cason@ascension.org
Jenn Davis
Senior Director of Development & Grants
Jenn.Davis@ascension.org
Emily Guest
Associate Director of Annual Giving
emily.guest@ascension.org
Mary Elizabeth Fleming
Associate Development Director – Dell Children’s Ball
mary.fleming@ascension.org
Ashley Hernandez
Development Coordinator
ashley.hernandez1@ascension.org
Meredith Mallory, MBA
Senior Director of Development – Principal Giving
meredith.mallory@ascension.org
Morgan Martell
Director of Development
morgan.martell@ascension.org
Sally McGlashan
Director of Development – Children’s Miracle Network
sally.mcglashan@ascension.org
Kara Simmang
Director of Development
kara.simmang@ascension.org
Armando Zambrano
Senior Director of Events
azambrano@ascension.org