Richard and Ginni Mithoff with Dr. Ken Mattox, chief of staff at Ben Taub Hospital.

The Mithoffs directed a $10 million contribution to the Harris County Harris District Foundation to be used to set up programs relating to healthcare programs for indigent children. Helped to create the Children’s Health Fund, which provides funds for long range health programs for children who are not currently eligible for other similar programs and who are at the highest risk in our society.

Received the first Ben Taub Humanitarian Award by Harris County Hospital District Foundation in 2000 in recognition of philanthropic endeavors as exemplified by the “generosity, interest and advocacy for health care” of the late Ben Taub. The hospital district named its world-class trauma center the Ginni and Richard Mithoff Trauma Center at the Ben Taub Hospital in 2007.