Sinai Hospital enters a new, public phase of its fundraising capital campaign to expand the Children’s Hospital at Sinai by announcing a $4 million donation from the Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation. With this gift Sinai has officially renamed the Children’s Hospital at Sinai to the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai. Both the ER-7 at Sinai and the Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital Center have received generous support from and are also named after the Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation.

The $30 million vertical expansion will not only expand the square footage and redesign the facility itself, but will also enhance all services provided to our pediatric patients and their families. In addition, the new inpatient unit will have all private rooms, each equipped with a sleep area for family members. The expansion will also enhance the current Remote Anesthesiology Unit and the outpatient pediatric Hematology/Oncology clinic, and centralize medical specialty office space so that ill children can stay within the confines of the hospital instead of traveling to the Medical Office Building across campus.

"Currently the Children’s Hospital offers many unique medical advances that could only be enhanced with a new expansion," said Neil Meltzer, president of Sinai Hospital. "With the generosity of groups like the Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation and individual gifts, we will be able to meet our goal, which will help Sinai Hospital better serve the children of our community and statewide."

The hospital has collected several other sizable gifts since the silent phase of the campaign began. Both the Ben and Zelda Cohen Foundation and philanthropist Ellen Wasserman have generously contributed to the project. The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation and the David and Barbara Hirschhorn Foundation jointly memorialized former foundation president and past Sinai Hospital board chair, David Hirschhorn. Additional major philanthropic supporters to the project include Brenda Mandel and husband Louis Frock, the Footlick Family Foundation, the Dr. Michael Feinglass Foundation, Seena Lubcher, the Aaron Straus and Lillie Straus Foundation in memory of Alfred Coplan.

"Sinai has been at the forefront of providing a family centered care approach to children and their families over the past decade," said Joseph Wiley, M.D., chairman, the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai. "As our diversity of services has grown, we have reached capacity in our physical plant. The opportunity for expansion gives us the ability to design a physical structure that is concordant with our mission to provide state-of-the-art pediatric care in a patient and family-friendly facility. Strategic planning is ongoing and our intent is to invite families we have cared for as well as representatives of all our services in a focus group format to help design an optimal facility for care for children in this millennium."

Sinai Hospital is part of LifeBridge Health, a regional health care organization that includes Northwest Hospital Center, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Jewish Convalescent & Nursing Home, and related subsidiaries and affiliates.