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CELEBRITY EMCEE HENRIK LUNDQVIST CELEBRATES WITH
NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN/MORGAN STANLEY CHILDREN’S
HOSPITAL AT ANNUAL BIRTHDAY
BASH
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Event Celebrates a Year of Birthdays Made Possible by the
World-Class Pediatric Care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital
NEW YORK (November 3, 2015) – NewYork-Presbyterian
marked the 12th birthday
of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
at the annual Birthday
Bash benefit
dinner on Monday, November 2 at The JW
Marriott Essex House in
Manhattan. For the second year, Henrik
Lundqvist, goaltender of the New York Rangers and co-founder
of the Henrik Lundqvist Foundation, acted as the event’s
celebrity emcee.
The evening celebrated
a year of extra birthdays made possible by the world-class
pediatric care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s
Hospital. Hosted by Dr.
Steven J. Corwin, president and CEO, NewYork-Presbyterian,
the event honored the Stavros
Niarchos Foundation.
A
leader in research and patient care since it was established as
the Babies Hospital in 1887, NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley
Children’s Hospital opened in 2003 as an innovative facility
with critical and neonatal intensive care facilities, providing
the highest quality care for pediatric patients from around the
region. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked in ten pediatric
specialties in the 2015-16 U.S.
News & World Report “Best
Children's Hospitals” survey — more than any other children’s
hospital in the New York metropolitan area.
NewYork-Presbyterian
NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the nation’s most comprehensive
healthcare delivery networks, focused on providing innovative
and compassionate care to patients in the New York metropolitan
area and throughout the globe. In collaboration with two
renowned medical school partners, Weill Cornell Medicine and
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, NewYork-Presbyterian
is consistently recognized as a leader in medical education,
ground-breaking research and clinical innovation.
NewYork-Presbyterian has four major divisions: NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital is
ranked #1 in the New York metropolitan area by U.S.
News and World Report and
repeatedly named to the magazine’s Honor Roll of best hospitals
in the nation; NewYork-Presbyterian
Regional Hospital Network is
comprised of leading hospitals in and around New York and
delivers high-quality care to patients throughout the region; NewYork-Presbyterian
Physician Services connects
medical experts with patients in their communities; and NewYork-Presbyterian
Community and Population Health features
the hospital’s ambulatory care network sites and operations,
community care initiatives and healthcare quality programs,
including NewYork Quality Care, established by NewYork-Presbyterian,
Weill Cornell and Columbia.
NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the largest healthcare providers
in the U.S. Each year, nearly 29,000 NewYork-Presbyterian
professionals deliver exceptional care to more than 2 million
patients.
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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (www.SNF.org)
is one of the world’s leading private international
philanthropic organizations, making grants in the areas of arts
and culture, education, health and sports, and social
welfare. The Foundation funds organizations and projects that
are expected to achieve a broad, lasting and positive impact for
society at large, focusing on vulnerable groups such as children
and the elderly, and also exhibit strong leadership and sound
management. The Foundation also seeks actively to support
projects that facilitate the formation of public-private
partnerships as an effective means for serving public welfare.
From 1996 until today, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has made
grant commitments of $1.79
billion /
€1.50 billion, through 3,252 grants to nonprofit organizations
in 111
nations around the world.
In
June of 2015, the Foundation announced a new grant initiative of
€100,000,000 ($112 million), in addition to its standard
grant-making activities, to help address the deepening crisis in
Greece by providing immediate relief support to the most
vulnerable members of Greek society. The new initiative follows
on the heels of two earlier initiatives in 2012 and 2013 of
€100,000,000 ($130 million/$136 million, respectively) each.
While the initiative in 2012, which has been completed, aimed as
well to provide immediate relief against the adverse effects of
the socio-economic crisis, the one announced in 2013 aims to
address the high percentage of youth unemployment, seeking to
create better employment prospects and new opportunities for the
young.
The Foundation’s largest single gift is the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), in
Athens, to be completed in 2016. The project's total budget of
$831mil (€596mil) includes two grants of $6 mil (€5mil) each to
the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera
respectively, aiming to support the organizations’ transition to
their new facilities. The project, designed by Renzo Piano,
includes the new facilities of the National Library of Greece,
and of the Greek National Opera, as well as the Stavros Niarchos
Park. The SNFCC is a testament and a commitment to the country’s
future. It is also an engine of short- to mid-term economic
stimulus. |