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Date: July 28, 2009
Contact: Peter Haigney or Cheryl Sarfaty
(732) 937-8521
Annual Golf Outing Set to Benefit The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital and the Child Health Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ – The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation will host the Children’s Health Eleventh Annual Golf Outing on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 beginning at 11 a.m. at TPC Jasna Polana in Princeton. All proceeds will benefit The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital (BMSCH) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), and the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ) at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). Bob Ciatto of the RWJUH Foundation Board and Roger Fine of the UMDNJ Foundation Board will serve as Chairmen of the event.
BMSCH is a state-of-the-art facility that is specially designed to care for children. With access to unparalleled academic and clinical resources, BMSCH remains the focal point of New Brunswick’s growing children’s health campus that also includes CHINJ, PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital and a Ronald McDonald House.
The upcoming golf event presents a variety of sponsorship opportunities to support children’s health, and to exceed the impressive $92,000 raised at last year’s outing. Packages start at $500 and include greens fee, golf cart, barbecue lunch, beverages and snacks on the course, cocktail reception, buffet dinner, gift, awards ceremony and program/sponsor board recognition. There is also a sponsorship opportunity to golf with Stephen K. Jones, FACHE, President and CEO of RWJUH, or Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD, Dean of UMDNJ-RWJMS. Activities also include a hole-in-one contest and raffles.
TPC Jasna Polana is a private country club with an award-winning championship golf course situated on 230 pristine acres in the heart of Princeton. Please join us for a day in the summer sunshine while helping support our children’s health programs. For more information, please call the Foundation at (732) 937-8750, send an e-mail to foundation@rwjuh.edu, or visit us at www.rwjuhfdn.org/JasnaGolf.
Please visit www.bmsch.org to learn more about The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital www.rwjuh.edu. Further information about the Child Health Institute of New Jersey is available at www2.umdnj.edu/chinjweb/. For a referral to a physician affiliated with RWJUH, please call 1-888-MD-RWJUH. Follow us on Twitter at www.rwjuh.edu/twitter and Facebook at www.rwjuh.edu/facebook.
About The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
As New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive children’s hospital, The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is a 105-bed, free-standing, state-designated, acute care hospital that offers specialties including cardiology and cardiac surgery, organ transplants, trauma treatment, fetal surgery, hematology/oncology and neurosurgery in a family-centered environment. It is consistently among the top-rated children’s hospitals in America for patient satisfaction.
About Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) is a 600-bed academic medical center and the principal hospital of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. Robert Wood Johnson is an innovative leader in advancing state-of-the-art care. RWJUH is the first hospital in the nation to implant the AbioCor self-contained artificial heart since the device received FDA approval in 2006. RWJUH is one of only three sites in the nation approved to offer this groundbreaking technology. Its Centers of Excellence include cardiovascular care from minimally invasive heart surgery to transplantation, cancer care, and women’s and children’s care including The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (www.bmsch.org). The hospital is also a Level 1 Trauma Center and serves as a national resource in its ground-breaking approaches to emergency preparedness. The hospital has earned significant national recognition for clinical quality and patient safety. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is ranked among the top 50 hospitals in the nation for heart and heart surgery (No. 36), cancer (No. 40) respiratory disorders (No. 50), according to U.S.News & World Report’s 2009 ranking of “America’s Best Hospitals.” The American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer has rated RWJUH among the nation's best comprehensive cancer centers. The Leapfrog Group rated RWJUH as one of the 50 exceptional U.S. hospitals, as published in Consumers Digest magazine. Harvard University researchers, in a study commissioned by The Commonwealth Fund, identified RWJUH as one of the top 10 hospitals in the nation for clinical quality. RWJUH is also a recipient of the prestigious Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence for more than 10 consecutive years. Visit us online at www.rwjuh.edu.
About The Child Heath Institute of New Jersey
The Child Heath Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ) was established in 1998 by the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School with the mission to advance basic science knowledge of vertebrate development and growth, and mechanisms of human diseases. The CHINJ is part of a larger biomedical research program that includes the neighboring Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the soon-to-be-established Cardiovascular Institute of New Jersey and Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. Completed in September 2005, the CHINJ building is located in the New Brunswick campus and includes 40,000 sq. ft. of open laboratory design and office space and a 25,000 sq. ft. mouse barrier facility, in addition to core laboratories for mouse gene targeting and transgenesis, histology/pathology, imaging, and microarray analysis. The Institute is in the process of recruiting world-class investigators who will be studying basic and translational aspects of childhood diseases including immunity, autoimmunity and inflammation, hematopoiesis and stem cells, infectious diseases and cancer (see Faculty recruitment for more information).
About Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
As one of the nation’s leading comprehensive medical schools, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school’s principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey’s premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region. As one of the eight schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with 2,800 full-time and volunteer faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 22 basic science and clinical departments, hosts centers and institutes including The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway and Camden, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs.
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