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$165,199 $311,053
GOLISANO
HIGHLAND HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
• Charitable giving supported a private bed • Charitable giving provided critical support to
modernization project to transform nearly all construct the Golisano Pediatric Behavioral
in-patient clinical space to private rooms, Health and Wellness building, which opened in
mirroring a growing national trend. Private patient 2020, to treat children and adolescents with
rooms improve privacy, create more space for expanded and enhanced services for depression,
families and visitors, reduce the risk of infection, anxiety, substance abuse, PTSD, and other
and help speed recovery. behavioral and emotional conditions.
• Annual funds helped social workers provide 12 • Support helped recruit and retain the best faculty
new iPads for patients who do not have the as well as draw master clinicians, cutting-edge
technology to stay in touch with their loved ones. researchers, and innovative educators—ensuring
To ensure a more comfortable and easier discharge, the robustness of the health care, medicine, and
patients in need receive support for clothing and science workforce in upstate New York for
transportation when they leave the hospital. generations to come.
• This year’s fund-in-need focused on acquiring
three new CARPEDIEM® machines to
Golisano Children’s Hospital and provide right-
President’s Strategic sized dialysis machines for babies facing severe
kidney disease.
Opportunities Fund: $300,962
• The new pediatric liver transplant team, which was
Health Sciences Division: $202,894 formed in 2018, performed its first transplant on
an 18-year-old patient in June. This transplant
establishes the foundation for the program, which
FUNDS SUPPORT STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND ALLOW THE will continue to operate on older children, with
UNIVERSITY TO PURSUE EMERGING PRIORITIES EACH YEAR. plans to expand and treat younger children within
a few years.
