A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee

The East Tennessee Children's Hospital is now known as Dolly Parton Children's Hospital. Hospital officials say the name change, announced Thursday, promises to “transform pediatric care” in the region. Parton's philanthropy already impacts her home state and beyond. A library initiative reports to send 3 million free books every month to children and she donated $1 million to research that helped produce Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. In a video posted Thursday, she says that she's “always believed that every child deserves a fair chance to grow up healthy, hopeful and surrounded with love.”