Four young children were appointed as ambassadors for Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital during a ceremony at Clovers Stadium in Pomona, just before a New York Boulders baseball game. As ambassadors the children, all of whom received successful treatment for serious illnesses at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, will represent the thousands of children cared for annually by the hospital.
During the ceremony, Ambassadors 8-year-old Gabe and his 4-year-old sister Rei, along with 4-year-old Jameson and 12-year-old Iyanna, were presented with official sashes and medals by Nicole Lucas, vice president of patient care services at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital.
The children’s hospital is part of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), a 1,700-bed health-care system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with nine hospitals on seven campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. The Network has Level I (adult and pediatric), Level II and Level III trauma centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, Comprehensive and primary stroke centers, skilled nursing facilities, home-care services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York state. Today, WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated health care in the Hudson Valley.
