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Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital and March Of Dimes Partner Together For 2011 “March For Babies”
March of Dimes “March for Babies” to be Held at Stony Brook Campus on Sunday May 1, 2011
STONY BROOK, NY,
February 14, 2011 –Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital will partner with the March of Dimes as the Suffolk County venue for its annual “March for Babies” fundraising event. On Sunday, May 1 hundreds of walkers – individuals and teams – will gather at the Stony Brook University main campus to raise funds and give hope to the more than half a million babies born too soon each year.
“The March comes at an excellent time,” said Margaret McGovern, MD, PhD Physician-in-Chief of Stony Brook Children’s and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. “We are scheduled to open our new state of the art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit this summer, and many of the walkers who will participate on May will have a real connection to this commitment on the part of the Children’s Hospital to provide the most advanced care to premature and sick infants in a new facility designed to be family friendly.”
Stony Brook Children’s has chosen Jenny Tranfalgia as the Suffolk County 2011 March for Babies Honoree. It was 27 years ago that Jenny, and her husband Joe, had their daughter Amanda who was born at 26 weeks and lost her battle with prematurity 33 days later. As they went through the bereavement process, the Tranfaglias started the “Little Angel Fund” (LAF) whose mission is to support, educate and care for families touched by prematurity and make their experience in the NICU more comfortable.
Stony Brook Children’s has also designated the Niemann Family of Smithtown as the official Ambassador Family for the 2011 March for Babies. Natalie and Kirk Niemann’s second daughter, Lila was born eight weeks premature on September 27, 2008 with an abnormal collection of ...
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