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Making a Difference in
Children's Health Care...
Recent
Children’s Dream Foundation programs include:
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
$500,000 to Children’s Hospital
for construction of their pediatric
emergency room.
Nyack Hospital Pediatric Emergency
Room, Nyack, NY $50,000 towards construction of a new pediatric
emergency room. The new
pediatric ER is a state of the art facility with five treatment rooms and a
completely separate
waiting area.
Mt.
Vernon Hospital, Mt. Vernon, NY $5,000 for the purchase of two Braslow carts, which hold specialized
equipment for pediatric care. Training provided in collaboration with
Westchester Medical Center.
Open Door Family Medical Center, Ossining, NY $50,000 to renovate the children’s
area of the Ossining facility.
Open Door serves over 20,000 patients (8,000
children) annually at four sites –
Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Mount Kisco,
and Port Chester/Rye Brook. 45% of Open
Door’s patients have no health
insurance. Services include primary and
preventive medical and dental care and
social services.
White Plains Hospital, White Plains, NY $50,000 towards the construction of a pediatric area in new emergency
room.
Open Door Family Medical Center, Port Chester, NY
$25,000 towards a new pediatric facility.
Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, NY
$4,000 to purchase a pediatric stretcher.
Greenburgh Health Center, Greenburgh, NY
$30,000 for the purchase of pediatric medical equipment and $5,000
for dental
equipment.
Children's Rehabilitation Center, White Plains, NY
$5,000 for specialized diagnostic equipment for children.
St. Francis Hospital, Poughkeepsie, NY
$44,000 for construction of a children's area in renovated emergency
room.
St. John’s Riverside
Hospital, Yonkers, NY
$38,000 to equip and
re-furbish a pediatric emergency area and to
provide an important piece of state
of the art equipment for the neonatal unit. The hospital has one of the busiest
emergency
rooms in the area. Last year 7700 pediatric patients were treated and
1800 babies were born at St. John’s.
Blythedale Children’s
Hospital, Valhalla, NY
$75,000 towards the purchase
of a unit of the Bernouilli Ventilator
Management System. This system enables
staff to monitor patients on respirators as they move around the hospital.
Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, NY
$12,000 to purchase six Braslow carts for emergency use.
In
the past, the CDF has provided resources to:
 Grant:
$20,000 to Richmond Children’s Foundation, Respiratory therapy system
Purchase of
a hospital grade compressor and associated equipment.
Grant:
$45,000 to Putnam Hospital; Pediatric Emergency Room.
Area is geared towards being kid friendly: kid’s wallpaper, furniture,
entertainment. This area is important, as 25% of their ER visits are children.
Grant:
$50,000 to Gilda’s Club Westchester for "Noogieland".
The $50,000 was used to build "Noogieland" a
designated playroom at Gilda’s Club Westchester where children can go and play.
It is not only for children who have cancer but also for kids who are visiting
the Club because of their family member’s cancer. They do art
projects, baking, or talk with a social worker. Noogieland has murals, a
library, and loads of games as well. The CDF is most proud to join forces with
Gilda’s club for children facing cancer, either directly or indirectly.
Grant:
$34,000 to Putnam Hospital; Partners in Care Program.
The emphasis of this program was to increase
awareness about asthma in Putnam County. This was accomplished in four ways:
1) Multi-learning packets were developed for the eight libraries in the County,
2) Packets geared towards children were created for the fourteen elementary and
primary schools in the County, 3) A respiratory therapist conducted an education
program entitled "Kids With Power Over Asthma" to educate children in grades 1
-5 and 4) A educational program "Children With Asthma: What You Need to
Know" was directed to people in the community such as soccer coaches, 4-H
leaders and day care providers who interact with children.
Grant:
$20,000 to Richmond Children’s Foundation.
Funds were used to build "Playscape" a therapeutic, recreational environment for
children with multiple disabilities. It contains a therapeutic bike path, an
adapted playground area, communication circle, and an elevated garden center.
Grant:
$17,154.04 toWestchester EMS, an Affiliate of Healthstar Network.
Pediatric advanced life support equipment including 8 Broselow Bags, and 12
pediatric immobilizers.
Established
the area's first video EEG "Dream Room" at Saint Agnes Hospital. This
equipment enables pediatric neurologists to more quickly and accurately diagnose
and treat hard-to-detect seizure disorders in children.
Provided
specialized pediatric equipment for the emergency department at United
Hospital, so that the physicians and nurses treating injured and sick children
have a full spectrum of special child-sized equipment and supplies -- such as
oxygen masks, intravenous catheters, splints, and blood pressure -- necessary
for proper diagnosis and treatment of their smallest and most fragile patients.
Supported
the expansion and renovation of a Newborn Nursery and Observation Area at
White Plains Hospital Center. Plans call for specialized lighting to insure
infant comfort, bassinets equipped with medical air, vacuum, and oxygen
connections, non-reflective glass to maximize viewing areas, expanded doorways
to accommodate mothers who are confined to wheelchairs or stretchers and the
Children's Step for children to view their new brother, sister, or cousin.
Furnished
and equipped five medical suites in the new Thomas and Agnes Carvel
Foundation Children's Rehabilitation Center, the only comprehensive,
out-patient, medical, rehabilitative and educational facility caring for
children with developmental disabilities in the region. The additional medical
suites, complete with the latest in diagnostic and treatment modalities, enable
many more children to be evaluated and treated by the numerous pediatric
specialists required for their ongoing complex medical care.
Donated
computers and printers for young patients in an out-patient children's
cancer center at Westchester Medical Center. While the children are receiving
intravenous chemotherapy treatments and transfusions, the computers provide
much-needed diversions, in addition to enabling the children to work on school
assignments.
Purchase
state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care equipment necessary to care for
the most fragile newborns at Sound Shore Medical Center. CDF's support of the
expansion of Sound Shore's Level II Neonatal Nursery will provide
cardio-respiratory monitors, infant warmers, incubators, oxygen analyzers and
other critically needed equipment for this new unit.
Supported
the creation of the Kaplan Family Therapeutic Aquatic Center at the
Carvel Foundation Children's Rehabilitation Center. This exciting new program
will enable the physical and occupational therapists to provide these children
diagnosed with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and other physical disabilities
with the specialized therapies necessary for them to reach their greatest
potential.
Purchased
TV's and VCR's for children undergoing kidney dialysis at Westchester
Medical Center. The TV's and VCR's provide important recreational opportunities
for children with kidney disease who must endure these difficult treatments
regularly and often extending over long periods of time.
Developed
a Children's Concentrated Care Unit (CCCU) at Saint Agnes Hospital, for
children needing more intensive nursing care than customarily available on the
pediatric floor. This CCCU provides the appropriate environment, equipment and
one-on-one nursing care for very sick children -- including the provision for
parents to be with their children at all times -- all of which encourages more
rapid recuperation from surgery or acute illness.
Provide
major financial support for a children's cancer research fund at New York
Medical College, which contributes essential resources to dedicated researchers
seeking a cure for the devastating cancers plaguing our children.
Purchased
special portable X-ray equipment to be used during pediatric oral
surgeries at Saint Agnes Hospital and also during out-patient procedures in the
pediatric dental service at the Carvel Foundation Children's Rehabilitation
Center.
In
addition, the CDF has produced a six-minute video, "You and Your Operation."
This informative film, showing prospective pediatric patients and their parents
what to expect before, during, and after surgery, has served to comfort and ease
the concerns of many children and their families over the last several years.
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