Child Health Leaders to Hold Summit on Health Care Reform

For Release: March 18, 2010

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Free public event sponsored by Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Children’s Health Fund.

What:

“Why California’s Children Need Health Reform,” with special video remarks by U.S. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo.

(This event is open to the public, free of charge, and breakfast and lunch will be provided)

When:

Thursday, March 25, 2010

9:00am-12:00pm

Where:

Paul Brest Hall at Munger Building 4
555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford University

Scheduled to speak:

  • Irwin Redlener, Children’s Health Fund
  • Jim Kaufman, National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions
  • Ted Lempert, Children Now!
  • Seth Ammerman, MD, Packard Children’s Hospital; Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Paul Wise, MD, MPH, Packard Children’s Hospital; Stanford School of Medicine
  • David Bergman, MD, Packard Children’s Hospital; Stanford School of Medicine
  • Lisa Wise, Lead Parent of the Parent Advisory Council at Packard Children’s Hospital

RSVP:

Please RSVP to Pamela Bohlmann, 650-724-1026 or pbohlmann@stanfordchildrens.org, by March 24, 2010

Authors

Todd Kleinheinz
(650) 725-9666
tkleinheinz@stanfordchildrens.org

About Children’s Health Fund

Children’s Health Fund was created in in 1987 in response to an unacceptable situation. For thousands of kids packed into New York City’s homeless shelters, their chance for the future was dim. That inspired singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/child advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, to do something life-changing for these children. Adequate medical care was an essential first step in helping them to be healthy and ready to learn, to have dreams and the hope of achieving them. Today, Children’s Health Fund has 50 mobile clinics, each a “doctor’s offices on wheels,” serving hundreds of locations across the country. And, over the past 26 years, the organization has grown to support almost 250,000 health care visits each year for disadvantaged children.  For more information, visit  childrenshealthfund.org.

About Stanford Medicine Children's Health

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford at its center, is the Bay Area’s largest health care system exclusively dedicated to children and expectant mothers. Our network of care includes more than 65 locations across Northern California and more than 85 locations in the U.S. Western region. Along with Stanford Health Care and the Stanford School of Medicine, we are part of Stanford Medicine, an ecosystem harnessing the potential of biomedicine through collaborative research, education, and clinical care to improve health outcomes around the world. We are a nonprofit organization committed to supporting the community through meaningful outreach programs and services and providing necessary medical care to families, regardless of their ability to pay. Discover more at stanfordchildrens.org.