 The network's mission is to raise funds and awareness for local children's hospitals.In fiscal year 2014-2015, 3,782 children were admitted to Children's Hospital and more than 47,118 were treated in the emergency department, outpatient surgery, and outpatient clinics.The initiative to create a hospital in Chattanooga for children was spearheaded in the 1920s by the city's former mayor, T.C.