Westchester’s Winter Wonderland Supports WMCHealth’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital

L to R: Josh Ratner, Chief Executive Officer of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley; Irene Tsetsekos, Senior Director, Development; Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth Network); Michael Gewitz, MD, William Russell McCurdy Physician-in-Chief at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital; Seth Mandelbaum, Westchester Parks Foundation Chair; Jane Solnick, Westchester Parks Foundation Vice Chair; Elyssa Martinez, Westchester Parks Foundation Director of Programs.

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) today announced the award of a $25,000 donation from Westchester Parks Foundation that was raised this past December at Westchester’s Winter Wonderland Drive Thru Light Holiday Extravaganza. The donation will be used to support the lifesaving and life-changing pediatric services offered to children and their families by Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital. 

Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital is the children’s hospital for New York’s Hudson Valley region and Fairfield County, Connecticut. Located in Valhalla, NY, this 136-bed advanced pediatrics facility cares for the region’s most seriously ill and injured children including those in need of cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, hematology and oncology treatments, organ transplants and other specialty pediatric services. Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital is also home to the area’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Level I pediatric trauma and burn care programs and its Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Maria Fareri Children’s Healthcare Services are available at WMCHealth’s MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY.