| Sinai
Hospital enters a new, public phase of its fundraising capital campaign to
expand the Children�s Hospital at Sinai by announcing a $4 million
donation from the
Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation. With this gift Sinai has
officially renamed the
Children�s Hospital at Sinai to the Herman
& Walter Samuelson Children�s Hospital at
Sinai. Both the ER-7 at Sinai and the Breast Care Center at
Northwest Hospital Center
have received generous support from and are also named after the
Herman & Walter
Samuelson Foundation.
The $30 million vertical expansion will not only expand the square footage
and redesign the facility itself, but will also enhance all services provided
to our pediatric
patients and their families. In addition, the new inpatient unit will have
all private rooms,
each equipped with a sleep area for family members. The expansion will also
enhance
the current Remote Anesthesiology Unit and the outpatient pediatric
Hematology/Oncology clinic, and centralize medical specialty office space so
that ill
children can stay within the confines of the hospital instead of traveling to
the Medical
Office Building across campus.
"Currently the Children�s Hospital offers many unique medical advances that
could only be enhanced with a new expansion," said Neil Meltzer, president of
Sinai
Hospital. "With the generosity of groups like the Herman & Walter
Samuelson
Foundation and individual gifts, we will be able to meet our goal, which will
help Sinai
Hospital better serve the children of our community and statewide."
The hospital has collected several other sizable gifts since the silent phase of
the campaign began. Both the Ben and Zelda Cohen Foundation and
philanthropist Ellen
Wasserman have generously contributed to the project. The Jacob and Hilda
Blaustein
Foundation and the David and Barbara Hirschhorn Foundation jointly
memorialized
former foundation president and past Sinai Hospital board chair, David
Hirschhorn.
Additional major philanthropic supporters to the project include Brenda
Mandel and
husband Louis Frock, the Footlick Family Foundation, the Dr. Michael
Feinglass
Foundation, Seena Lubcher, the Aaron Straus and Lillie Straus Foundation in
memory
of Alfred Coplan.
"Sinai has been at the forefront of providing a family centered care approach
to children and their families over the past decade," said Joseph Wiley,
M.D., chairman,
the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai. "As our
diversity of
services has grown, we have reached capacity in our physical plant. The
opportunity for
expansion gives us the ability to design a physical structure that is
concordant with our
mission to provide state-of-the-art pediatric care in a patient and
family-friendly facility.
Strategic planning is ongoing and our intent is to invite families we have
cared for as well
as representatives of all our services in a focus group format to help design
an optimal
facility for care for children in this millennium."
Sinai Hospital is part of LifeBridge Health, a regional health care organization
that includes Northwest Hospital Center, Levindale Hebrew
Geriatric Center and
Hospital, Jewish Convalescent & Nursing Home, and related
subsidiaries and affiliates.
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