AUXILI PITAL AN A HOS ND D VO AR LUNT AW EER AC T HIEVEMENT AWARD EN M VE IE CH A ER TE N U The United Hospital Fund is dedicated to creating the health care system all of us want for ourselves, our families, and our neighbors. Please consider honoring one of today’s extraordinary volunteers or auxilians, and supporting the work of the Fund, by becoming a Patron or Sponsor. This unique awards program brings public attention to the invaluable contributions of our honorees, and the other 50,000 committed volunteers in our city, who make such an important difference to patients and their families and extend the ability of New York’s hospitals to provide the best care possible.
Patrons and Sponsors will be recognized in the event’s Program and all gifts will be gratefully acknowledged. Please use the enclosed reply card to indicate your level of support. Please join us for tea at the Waldorf as the United Hospital Fund honors the 2009 recipients of the # HOSPITAL AUXILIAN and VOLUNTEER ACHIEVE#MENT AWARD
Friday, March 6, 2009 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m The Grand Ballroom of The Waldorf-Astoria Park Avenue at 50th Street, New York City
Special Guest Sade Baderinwa Co-anchor,WABC-TV Eyewitness News at 5:00
RSVP by February 10, 2009 on the enclosed card
Generously underwritten by TD Bank United Hospital Fund The United Hospital Fund is a health services research and J. Barclay Collins II philanthropic organization whose Chairman mission is to shape positive change James R. Tallon, Jr. in health care for the people of President New York. Mary Beth C. Tully Through its Committee on Voluntary Initiatives, the Fund Chairman, Committee on supports and promotes volunteer Voluntary Initiatives service and leadership in hospitals and health care in New York City. It awards grants to volunteer programs that improve the hospital experience for patients and their caregivers, convenes volunteer task forces to address specific issues, organizes educational forums for volunteers and the professionals who work with them, and sponsors recognition and recruitment programs to draw attention to voluntarism as a vital force in health care. 2015 Honorees Bellevue Hospital Center Harlem Hospital Center Maimonides Medical Lorinda Klein Kwadwo Debrah Center Monika Misslbeck-Slote Dorothy L. Payne- Molly Broitman Morehead Jules (Yitzchok) Fleischer The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Friends of Harlem MediSys Health Network Center Hospital Center Flushing Hospital Medical Sirena M. Evans Corwin J. Breeden Center Mary Calderella The Brooklyn Hospital Hospital for Special Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Surgery Center Ryan Browne Arlene Shiller Frances V. Hicks
Calvary Hospital Interfaith Medical Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Neville Audain Ionie Johnson Cancer Center Robyn L. Joseph Henry J. Carter Jacobi Medical Center Beth Ratcliffe Specialty Hospital and Lana Wechsler Nursing Facility Metropolitan Hospital Kingsbrook Jewish Frimpong Manso Center Medical Center Joe M. Brailsford Coler Rehabilitation and Eudora Cox Melvin Green Nursing Care Center Ruel Wallace Ada Diallo-Bolly Montefiore Health Kings County Hospital System Coney Island Hospital Center Montefiore Medical Harriet Keller David Kaner Center Neonila Zhukivskyy Hermilita Neblett The Children’s Cumberland Diagnostic Lincoln Medical and Hospital at Montefiore and Treatment Center Mental Health Center Andrea Pacheco Priscilla Douglas Bettie Alston Einstein Campus Sandra Stone Cynthia Jones Elmhurst Hospital Center Moses Campus Andrew Pang Lutheran Medical Center Alan Epstein Margherita Clemento Wakefield Campus Gouverneur Health Penelope Fairhurst Adhyr Clarke Galuth A. Caceres Montefiore New Rochelle Michael Tsai Hospital Winifred Burch
(continued on reverse) 2015 Honorees (cont’d) Mount Sinai Health Lower Manhattan NYU Hospital for Joint System Hospital Diseases Mount Sinai Beth Israel Loretta Hom Rosemary Figueroa Mary-Louise Flood Morgan Stanley Children’s Lucia Loher Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital Brooklyn Ilene Schuckett NYU Langone Medical Bonnie Edner Weill Cornell Medical Center Javier S. Medina Center Jeannette Chirikdjian The Mount Sinai Hospital Carol J. Kroin Queens Hospital Center Ilana L. Greene Daphne Moore Audrey G. Kubie North Central Bronx Darius Rutazaana Mount Sinai Queens Hospital Frances Powell Rebecca Leigh Mears Renaissance Health Care Mount Sinai Roosevelt North Shore-LIJ Health Network Diagnostic and Jackie Archis System Treatment Center Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Forest Hills Hospital Priscilla Maddox Judy Tenenbaum Nelly R. Unger New York Eye and Ear Richmond University Franklin Hospital Infirmary of Mount Sinai Medical Center Carolyn Doherty Stephanie Calderon Helen Dennie Lenox Hill Hospital Luise Fischetti New York Community Chad Menville Hospital Robin Waxenberg St. John’s Episcopal Dana DeCrescenzo Long Island Jewish Hospital Medical Center Jose Merced New York Hospital Leonard Z. Drachtman Queens Christina Lightbourne St. Mary’s Healthcare Bruce Robinson Staten Island University System for Children Hospital Erin Pellegrino New York Methodist Laura Wenzel Hospital North Campus SBH Health System Rose M. Ansalone Jean Gardner Yunirda Acosta Theresa Lorusso Robert Gardner Woodhull Medical Center South Campus NewYork-Presbyterian Shirley Baker Louise Morro Hospital John Pozarowski Cohen Children’s Medical The Allen Hospital Center Richard Podhayny Wyckoff Heights Medical Mike Kroeber Columbia University Center Medical Center Joselyn A. Tenecota Richard Ureña