Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (1990s)
About 30 years ago, Felicia and Ben Horowitz's toddler son fell gravely ill on a drive home from a colleague's beach house in California. Three doctors misdiagnosed the flu before the boy was referred to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, where surgeons found a hernia in his intestine and operated in an emergency. Ben Horowitz says without the surgery, their son could have died.
The boy recovered. Felicia Horowitz told her husband she wanted to build a children's hospital for others, the way Packard helped her family.
In October 2026, the couple committed $150 million to Nevada's first stand-alone children's hospital, which will bear their names. Intermountain officials say the gift is among the largest public donations to a U.S. children's hospital.
The Horowitz gift, and the hospital it funds, trace directly to the care their son received at Packard three decades ago.