The United Hospital Fund needs your help in identifying candidates for our 2008 Distinguished Community Service Award, which will be presented at our Gala on Monday evening, October 6, 2008.
Who Qualifies
This annual award honors an individual whose voluntary leadership of a program or initiative has had a major impact on improving health care in New York. Candidates' contributions must be voluntary/unpaid, must be of significant magnitude, and must be identified with a specific health care project or initiative that improves the availability, affordability, or quality of health care services in New York City, especially services for disadvantaged, uninsured, or underinsured persons.
Previous Award Winners
Charles R. Bronfman, a philanthropist who is advancing the personalized medicine revolution through a new center at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Henry "Hank" Carter, a retired bank executive whose efforts are improving the quality of life of the physically challenged patients and residents of Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility
Rocco F. Andriola, an investment banker, who, as former chairman of the New York Organ Donor Network, has increased awareness about and participation in organ donation
Eleanor Hammerman, a hospital auxilian and volunteer whose vision established the Initiative for Women with Disabilities at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases
Click here to read about all previous award winners.
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