L-R: Antonio D. Martin, Senior VP/ Executive Director, KCHC; NY City Councilman Mathieu Eugene; Megan Sheekey, President, Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC; Angela Lyles, Development Manager, HHC Foundation of NYC; and Nazli Parvizi, Commissioner, NYC Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit

Earthquake victims in Haiti are getting a lot of help from their neighbors in New York City and especially from the NYC public hospital system.  On May 6, the HHC Foundation presented a check for more than $125,000 to the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, which is managing the City's Haiti Relief Fund. 

One hundred percent of the donations received from staff, patients and visitors at HHC's hospitals, long-term care centers and ambulatory care facilities will go to emergency relief organizations that are directly serving victims of the Haiti earthquake in January.  HHC employees are donating directly and through payroll deductions, which will continue through the end of this year.  Fundraising events like concerts, lunch sales, cook-offs and raffles were also held.  And of course, many staff members traveled as "first responders" to Haiti, using their own time and money to help earthquake victims. 

For the thousands of HHC patients and staff who have roots in Haiti, there is comfort in the knowledge that their neighbors and colleagues in the New York public hospitals are raising funds to support the crucial relief and rebuilding efforts in that nation.

May 2010