Corporate Leadership Council to Raise Funds For Cincinnati Children's Pediatric Transport Program
CINCINNATI -- More than 200 executives from companies throughout the Cincinnati area have set a goal of raising $205,000 to benefit Children's Hospital Medical Center's pediatric transport program.
The executives are members of the Corporate Leadership Council (CLC). Each year, they collaborate to gain financial support from the Greater Cincinnati business community for targeted projects at Cincinnati Children's. This year's campaign, which begins March 1, 1999, will benefit the area's only mobile intensive care unit for infants and children.
The pediatric transport program provides safe, efficient and timely transport of infants and children to Cincinnati Children's for urgently needed medical care.
The transport team, which consists of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other health-care professionals, provides medical management and expertise as they stabilize and transport critically ill or injured infants and children from referring hospitals to Cincinnati Children's. Rich Brilli, M.D., is medical director, patient transport services.
CLC members will raise funds for equipment to support critically ill infants and children. This includes the ability to deliver inhaled nitric oxide to critically ill newborns with congenital heart disease or acute respiratory failure. The transport team would be the only team in Cincinnati able to deliver this life-saving medication while on transport.
"The pediatric transport team provides an essential service to speed the delivery of specialized pediatric care to sick and injured infants and children," says Rob Anning, chair of the CLC and assistant vice president, Private Client Group, Merrill Lynch. "This project is one that the entire Cincinnati business community can support."
The Children's Hospital Medical Center pediatric transport team was founded in 1988. Prior to this time, the only interhospital transport that the medical center sponsored was conducted by the newborn intensive care unit and involved only the transport of critically ill premature newborns from local nurseries to Cincinnati Children's.
By 1998, more than 800 patients were being transported each year -- 500 as newborns requiring transfer to Cincinnati Children's newborn intensive care unit and 350 as infants and children, many to the pediatric intensive care unit.
The ground transport unit brings infants and children to Cincinnati Children's from as far away as Indianapolis and Portsmouth. Air transport brings infants and children from as far away as Israel and Hawaii.
Contact Information
Jim Feuer (
jfeuer@chmcc.org)
