Lestere Cox News Today

A recent grant from the Timken Foundation will fund projects at Amanda Belles Farm to help grow a healthy community and future.

1:18 Tulips are part of CoxHealth’s history.  Lester E. Cox, who played a large role in the health system’s survival and success in the 1940s and 1950s, brought tulip bulbs back from Amsterdam to plant at Cox North.  He wanted to give patients something colorful and hopeful to see out their windows.  And real tulips still bloom at Cox facilities each spring, continuing that legacy. Lisa Alexander, president of the CoxHealth Foundation, said that’s why they chose tulips to represent sur...