NYU Langone Well being hosted its annual “Sala-bration” occasion on November 12 to acknowledge the impactful work of Sala Institute for Youngster and Household Centered Care. As an integral a part of Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital at NYU Langone, Sala Institute fosters significant partnerships amongst healthcare suppliers, kids, and households. Over the previous 11 years, Sala Institute has profoundly influenced and enhanced the excellence of medical care throughout Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital via its assist providers, resilience applications, and security and high quality initiatives.
Held at Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital, the occasion introduced collectively 130 attendees to rejoice $3.2 million in fundraising to assist and broaden Sala Institute’s mission and assets. The night featured opening remarks from Robert I. Grossman, MD, CEO of NYU Langone Well being and dean of NYU Grossman College of Drugs, together with heartfelt reflections from Sala Institute co-founders Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert W. Gottesman.
Its founding donors, the Gottesmans, are steadfast advocates for youngsters’s well being and have helped NYU Langone attain key milestones in pediatric care. Named in honor of Trudy’s mom, Sala Bierman Elbaum, a Holocaust survivor, Sala Institute serves as a logo of resilience, with an ongoing dedication to supporting kids and households, and their partnership with college and employees all through the care journey.
“Bob and I are extremely happy with Sala’s development and accomplishments,” stated Trudy. “It is deeply fulfilling to see our collective imaginative and prescient carry consolation and assist to kids and their households once they want it most—and to know this affect will proceed for years to return.”
This 12 months’s celebration honored Jason C. Fisher, MD, director of Kids’s Surgical Providers at Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital and director of the Division of Pediatric Surgical procedure at NYU Grossman College of Drugs, for his dedication to advancing Sala’s child- and family- centered tradition. The Gottesmans, together with colleagues and affected person households, celebrated Dr. Fisher’s dedication to offering distinctive surgical care.
I am humbled to be acknowledged as a Sala champion. Caring for youngsters is a workforce effort, and when folks with various expertise work collectively, the end result is all the time better than the sum of its elements. Sala providers are seamlessly built-in with the medical care we offer at Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital, and having such a useful resource is crucial to our mission.”
Dr. Jason C. Fisher, MD, Director of Kids’s Surgical Providers, Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital and Director, Division of Pediatric Surgical procedure, NYU Grossman College of Drugs
In honor of Dr. Fisher, Ellen Cambe shared her household’s expertise at Hassenfeld Kids’s Hospital, the place Dr. Fisher and a multidisciplinary workforce saved her daughter Malaya’s life. Malaya was recognized earlier than delivery with congenital diaphragmatic hernia—a uncommon situation inflicting a big gap within the diaphragm via which belly organs push into the chest, inhibiting lung improvement. She subsequently required complicated surgical procedure shortly after delivery. Ellen recounted how Dr. Fisher guided her household via this tough time with readability and empathy, making certain they understood every medical choice. His simple but compassionate workforce strategy supplied a gentle presence as they navigated the challenges of life assist and delicate surgical procedures.
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“Dr. Fisher’s experience and dedication to Malaya and our household saved us going via the toughest days,” stated Ellen. “He handled us as companions in her care, which made all of the distinction in feeling like we may deal with no matter got here subsequent.”
Now that Malaya is 9, her story continues to spotlight the crucial function of collaborative family-centered care.
Sala Institute leads a variety of applications in shut collaboration with medical groups, sufferers, and households:
- Sala Youngster and Household Assist Providers and Resilience Applications: providing little one life, inventive arts therapies, the KiDS of NYU Basis Built-in Behavioral Well being Program, integrative drugs, diet, ache administration, palliative care, social work, and non secular assist
- Household Partnership Applications: enhancing affected person expertise via Sala Household Advisory Council, Sala Youth Advisory Council, and Sala Affected person and Household College Program
- Affected person Security and High quality Applications
“Trudy and Bob’s long-standing and unwavering assist for pediatric care at NYU Langone has profoundly impacted the lives of hundreds of youngsters and their households,” stated Catherine S. Manno, MD, the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the Division of Pediatrics. “Sala is crucial to the compassionate, customized care we offer, and I prolong my heartfelt because of them for his or her visionary management in making certain each little one and household receives the best stage of assist.”
