The Junior Seau Foundation has given $500,000 to Rady Children’s Hospital to grow a pediatric urgent care center in the legendary linebacker’s hometown of Oceanside.
The Junior Seau Foundation Urgent Care Center will be located in the WebMD Pavilion at Rady Children’s North Coastal Center.
Ben Metcalf, a spokesman for Rady Children’s Hospital, has said the donation will help increase the capacity of the existing urgent care center in Oceanside, which is the Rady’s fastest growing urgent care center.
“With the help of the Foundation, we will be able to make the existing space more efficient and user-friendly, thereby allowing us to see more patients every day,” Metcalf said.
The foundation’s pledge comes just days before Junior Seau’s induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Considered one of the greatest linebackers of all time, Junior Seau grew up in Oceanside and played for the San Diego Chargers for 13 years. He was selected to the Pro Bowl 12 times during his NFL career.
“We are thrilled to have the support of a Foundation that, above all else, is dedicated to helping children,” Dr. Donald Kearns, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Hospital San-Diego, said in a statement. “This gift serves to further foster the vision and legacy that Junior Seau had vigorously promoted for his hometown community.”
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The Oceanside facility also has the Sanford Children’s Clinic and other Rady services, such as developmental services, outpatient psychiatry and child abuse prevent and treatment.
