{"id":415863,"date":"2010-03-11T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:11:36","slug":"ray-tye-noted-children%e2%80%99s-philanthropist-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415863","title":{"rendered":"Ray Tye, noted children\u2019s philanthropist, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Ray Tye with Children's patient, Omar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ray Tye, a successful businessman turned noted children\u2019s philanthropist, died yesterday morning at the age of 87. Tye was devoted to helping children in medical need.<\/p>\n

Tye helped numerous patients receive care at Children\u2019s Hospital Boston, many coming from all over the world. Fernanda Medeiros, manager of the International Center<\/a> at Children\u2019s, worked side-by-side with Tye to help children from foreign countries receive life-saving treatments. \u201cThe world has lost a great, great man,\u201d Medeiros tells The Boston Herald<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

One of the many patients whose care he helped pay for is Omar, who was badly injured while traveling to Baghdad. He needed extensive reconstructive surgery and the Ray Tye Medical Foundation<\/a> donated $100,000 to help cover medical expenses. Tye also lobbied on behalf of Omar and his family to receive political asylum in the United States, which they were recently granted.<\/p>\n

Dumanel Luxama, a boy from Haiti with a rare congenital facial malformation, was another child Tye helped. You can read Dumanel’s story and watch a video about him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tye’s generous spirit will be remembered by many, especially those of us here at Children\u2019s. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.<\/p>\n

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Ray Tye with Children's patient, Omar Ray Tye, a successful businessman turned noted children\u2019s philanthropist, died yesterday morning at the age of 87. Tye was devoted to helping children in medical need. Tye helped numerous patients receive care at Children\u2019s Hospital Boston, many coming from all over the world. Fernanda Medeiros, manager of the International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}