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Thank you for supporting
The Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer
Fund through your generous
participation this year at our Annual
Golf Tournament.
We could not help these
children without you.
No
cancer therapy is easy, but there is a place
especially for children that can offer the best
possible chance of recovery. This place is the
Herbert Irving Child & Adolescent Oncology Center
(Center) at Columbia University Medical Center,
Morgan Stanley’s Children Hospital of New York
Presbyterian. All of our young patients receive the
intense therapy, caring, and support that can help
them and their families through what might be the
most difficult time of their lives. The Hope &
Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund, an independent
501(c) (3), was established two years ago to support
our efforts at the Center to provide unparalleled
patient care for children and their families,
education of medical students and research.
The Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer
Fund
helps us provide patient services that include a
dedicated Child Life program, psychosocial
initiatives that utilize art and music therapy, “Big
Apple” clowns and an endowment fund for uninsured or
underinsured patients—52% of our patients. (We
provide care to all families regardless of their
ability to pay.) Hope & Heroes supports integrative
therapies such as nutrition, herbal medicine
education, pet therapy, acupressure, aromatherapy,
massage and yoga instruction. The Fund raises much
needed monies to continue to expand research to seek
better treatments and possibly even cures for these
dreaded diseases.
In
a perfect world, kids wouldn’t get sick with
life-threatening cancer. We wouldn’t have to worry
about revenue and budgets. We could do whatever it
takes to find better treatments and possibly even
cures without ever considering costs.
Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world.
Children do get sick and we need to address the
financial outlook for the future of providing health
care to our young patients and their families.
Your contribution and dedication makes a direct
impact on children’s lives. Thank you again.
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