Brady's Smile expands programs to Pittsburgh, DuBois
Saturday, August 30, 2008
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Brady's Smile Inc. will soon be "doing big things for little ones in need" in Pennsylvania. Beginning in September, the Connecticut-based charitable organization is expanding its successful children-based intensive care unit programs into more hospitals. New partnerships have been formed between Brady's Smile and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, as well as with DuBois Regional Medical Center. Brady's Smile's primary goal since its founding five months ago has been to help make time in the newborn and pediatric ICUs easier for children and their families.
The addition of these new partnerships will complement existing programs at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and help touch the lives of more children in need.
Brady's Smile is establishing its Brady's Smile Comfort Bags, Brady's Blankets and Music in the ICU programs in the newborn, pediatric and Cardiac ICUs at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Children's Hospital is consistently named to several elite lists of pediatric health care facilities and has more than 50 beds combined in its ICUs.
The newborn ICU at DRMC will benefit from the Brady's Smile Comfort Bags program. In addition, Brady's Smile announces the creation of "Meals by Matt and Annie," a new program being established at DRMC that provides monthly home-cooked dinners for the families of newborns and children staying in the ICU.
The newborn ICU at DRMC has been an essential part of central Pennsylvania for more than 30 years and is well-respected in the state.
Comfort Bags provide basic essentials to caregivers and toys to babies and children. Brady's Blankets are homemade fleece blankets that will be distributed to babies and children during their time in the ICU.
The newborn ICU program will give every baby and child an opportunity to benefit from the power of music during their time in the ICUs.
For more information, visit www.bradyssmile.org
The generosity of supporters, as well as the success of these three programs at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, have led to Brady's Smile expanding into additional hospitals.
Co-founders Matt and Annie (Flegal) Hinton are thrilled with the progress and have also announced Brady's Smile's first fundraiser, "Color the Night," to be held in October at the Lawrence Hall on Mill Road in Clearfield. The event will begin at 5 p.m. on a date to be announced.
All proceeds raised at the event will benefit the programs at the above-mentioned hospitals.
To purchase tickets for "Color the Night," call Donna Fox at 592-6394.
