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NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL GALA BENEFIT
RAISES $4 MILLION TO SUPPORT
CARDIAC SERVICES
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Carole King Provided
Entertainment at Black Tie Affair
NEW YORK (April 4,
2014) – NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital’s annual Gala benefit
dinner raised a record $4 million to support the hospital’s
cardiac services. The event on April 1, 2014, drew over
1,100 attendees to the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf
Astoria.
Guests joined Frank
A. Bennack Jr., Chair,
Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Dr.
Steven J. Corwin, CEO
of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Dr.
Robert Kelly, President of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital;
Dr. Herbert Pardes, Executive
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital; and Dr.
Laura Forese, Group Senior Vice President and Chief
Operating Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and
President of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, as
the hospital hosted the benefit and celebrated the ongoing
work of the cardiac team. With their patient-centered focus
and commitment to excellence, the doctors and nurses of the
Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center and the
Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute have helped position
NewYork-Presbyterian as one of the top three hospitals in
the nation in heart and heart surgery, according to U.S.
News and World Report.
In addition to dinner and cocktails, guests enjoyed a
special performance by award-winning singer and songwriter Carole
King.
Additional guests included Gala Chair Stephanie
Coleman and Chase
Coleman, Gala
Chair Abby
Elbaum and Richard
Elbaum, John andChristy
Mack, Dr.
Nancy Wexler, Dr.
Mehmet and Lisa
Oz, Roger
Altman and Jurate
Kazickas, Arthur and Julie
Hedge, Rebecca andArthur
Samberg, Oscar and Didi
Schafer and Al
Kelly. Gala
Faculty Chairs were Dr.
O. Wayne Isom, Dr.
Bruce B. Lerman, Dr.
Allan Schwartz, and Dr.
Craig R. Smith.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, based in New York City, is
one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive
hospitals, with some 2,600 beds. In 2012, the Hospital had
nearly 2 million inpatient and outpatient visits, including
12,758 deliveries and 275,592 visits to its emergency
departments. NewYork-Presbyterian’s 6,144 affiliated
physicians and 20,154 staff provide state-of-the-art
inpatient, ambulatory and preventive care in all areas of
medicine at six major centers: NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen
Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division
and NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital. One of
the most comprehensive health care institutions in the
world, the Hospital is committed to excellence in patient
care, research, education and community service. NewYork-Presbyterian
is the #1 hospital in the New York metropolitan area and is
consistently ranked among the best academic medical
institutions in the nation, according to U.S. News & World
Report. The Hospital has academic affiliations with two of
the nation’s leading medical colleges: Weill Cornell Medical
College and Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons. For more information, visit www.nyp.org |