Children’s Mercy Presents “$1 Million Event Award” to Black & Veatch

Overland Park, Kan. (May 13, 2008) – Black & Veatch announced today that its 12th annual charity golf tournament’s donations have resulted in more than $1 million in support since the event’s inception for Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, headquartered in Kansas City, Mo.

This year’s event, held Monday at the Shadow Glen Golf Club in Olathe, raised contributions of $210,000. This marked another consecutive year of record tournament contributions for Children’s Mercy.

"Through our Building a World of Difference® Foundation, Black & Veatch, with the support of its global clients, business partners, vendors and professionals, is pleased to be able to combine with Children’s Mercy to help make a difference in the lives of children as we work to improve the quality of life for families in communities around the world," said Len Rodman, Chairman, President and CEO of Black & Veatch. "This great event serves to further highlight the fact that Children’s Mercy provides the highest level of medical care, technology, services, equipment and facilities in promoting the health and well-being of children."

Black & Veatch has worked with Children’s Mercy to provide proceeds from the event for a specific area of need at the hospital. This year’s event contributions will go toward the purchase of new state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment for Children’s Mercy. Past tournament contributions have funded the hospital's emergency department, robotic surgery, intensive care nursery, Children’s Mercy South expansion, transportation and research.

“This wonderful event has supported numerous efforts to build upon the level of care and service we provide to the region. We feel so fortunate to have Black & Veatch and its global business partners supporting our efforts to provide children’s health care,” said Dorene Shipley, Senior Director of Corporate and Hospital Giving at Children’s Mercy.

Following the tournament, Shipley presented Black & Veatch with Children’s Mercy “$1 Million Event Award” in honor of the event raising more than $1 million since the tournament’s inception.

About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company specializing in infrastructure development in energy, water, telecommunications, management consulting, federal and environmental markets. Founded in 1915, Black & Veatch develops tailored infrastructure solutions that meet clients’ needs and provides sustainable benefits. Solutions are provided from the broad line of service expertise available within Black & Veatch, including conceptual and preliminary engineering services, engineering design, procurement, construction, financial management, asset management, program management, construction management, environmental, security design and consulting, management consulting and infrastructure planning. With $3.2 billion in revenue, the employee-owned company has more than 100 offices worldwide and has completed projects in more than 100 countries on six continents. The company’s Web site address is www.bv.com.

About Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is the Kansas City region’s only pediatric medical center, providing the highest quality care for children with serious, chronic and non-critical needs. The medical staff of nearly 500 pediatric specialists provides comprehensive care in more than 40 pediatric specialties. Founded in 1897, Children’s Mercy offers the region’s only Level 1 pediatric trauma center, the highest levels of pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, one of the country’s busiest critical care transport programs dedicated to children, and the area’s only home health care service for children. Our dozens of multi-disciplinary outpatient clinics have more than 270,000 visits each year. Children’s Mercy has two hospitals (one with 260 inpatient beds; and the other with 54) that admit 13,000 children a year, an emergency room and three urgent care centers (with more than 110,000 visits each year) and primary care clinics in three locations around greater Kansas City. In addition, our specialists staff outreach clinics throughout Kansas and Missouri.

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