Museum Children Spread Goodwill Among Pediatric Patients At SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Jan 3, 2008
Brooklyn, NY - An act of kindness toward someone who is sick or hospitalized during the holidays is often the best medicine. This season, young patients at SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital were thrilled to receive holiday get-well cards made for them by youngsters at the Jewish Children’s Museum. The cards let them know that other children were thinking about them.
“Here at the museum, we want to teach universal values. It’s the idea that every child should feel and care for another,” said museum spokesman Zev Steinhauser.
Maria Yomtov, director of Downstate’s Center for Community Health Promotion and Wellness, gratefully received the children’s hand-made cards and distributed them among young hospital patients. In turn, the museum’s children received small band-aid kits as a token of the medical center’s appreciation.
“It is heart-warming to see children from the Jewish Children's Museum demonstrate such compassion for others who are ill. They placed their names and even telephone and e-mail address on the get-well cards,” Ms. Yomtov said.
###
About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.