Yale-New Haven Hospital
Release date: Nov. 11, 2009
Media contact: (203) 688-2488
NEW HAVEN - The Tommy Fund is promoting the fight against pediatric cancer through the annual sale of holiday greeting cards. The cards are part of a regional fundraising effort to meet the educational, recreational and treatment needs of children with cancer. All of the Tommy Fund cards are designed by young artists who are receiving treatment at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital.
Holiday card sales have generated more than $300,000 for the Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer in the last 22 years. Proceeds provide direct and indirect financial assistance to patients who are treated at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. They have helped fund a pediatric oncology research nurse, nursing education and research fellowships at Yale School of Medicine for physicians in pediatric oncology. The Tommy Fund also provides recreational and diversional activities for patients, including family outings and such items as TV monitors, headphones, games and toys for patients.
Tommy Fund holiday cards are on sale now at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Atrium Gift Shop, all southern Connecticut AAA motor clubs, and through the Tommy Fund Web site, www.tommyfund.org. Cards are sold in packets of 12 for $12. For more information about the Tommy Fund or the holiday card sale, contact the Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer at 1.800.974.5559.
Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, with 201 of Yale-New Haven's 944 beds, offers the region's largest and most comprehensive array of maternity and pediatric services, including newborn special care and maternal special care units, a 19-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric surgery center and a pediatric clinical research unit.
