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Celebrating the $1 million donation from Century Club Charities to Friends of Children's Hospital are, from left, Caitlin Foreman, executive director of Friends of Children's Hospital; Hilary Burroughs, vice president of marketing at Wayne-Sanderson Farms; Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs at UMMC; Dr. Mary Taylor, Suzan B. Thames Chair and professor of pediatrics; David Gadd, senior vice president at Wayne-Sanderson Farms and general manager of the company's retail business unit; Dr. JR Woodall, president of Century Club Charities; Kristin Allen, board chair of Friends of Children's Hospital; Steve Jent, executive director of the Sanderson Farms Championship; and Dr. Guy Giesecke, CEO of Children's of Mississippi.

Sanderson Farms Championship host organization donates $1M to benefit Children’s of Mississippi

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

For an 11th consecutive year, Century Club Charities, the host of the state’s only PGA TOUR event, presented a seven-figure gift from the tournament to Friends of Children’s Hospital, a nonprofit organization that raises funds for the state’s only children’s hospital. The $1 million gift, coupled with over $750,000 to other Mississippi charities, brings Century Club Charities' total charitable impact statewide to over $1.75 million in 2024.

Resident Dr. Jason Lee, left, and Dr. Jeff Carron are shown surgically implanting Landon Forbes' Sentio system.

Mississippi’s first Sentio surgeries give teens 360 degrees of hearing

Monday, December 16, 2024

Landon Forbes and Lily Reed, who both had hearing in one ear, now can hear in both ears after surgery and activation of Sentio, an active transcutaneous bone conduction hearing system approved by the FDA earlier this year.