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Founded in 1901, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has been treating the most seriously ill and injured children in Los Angeles for more than a century, and it is acknowledged throughout the United States and around the world for its leadership in pediatric and adolescent health.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles treats more than 62,000 children a year in its Emergency Department. It admits more than 11,000 children a year to the hospital, and nearly 50 percent of those admissions are children under four years of age. There are more than 287,000 visits a year to its 29 outpatient clinics and laboratories; nearly 5,000 visits at community sites through its Division of Adolescent Medicine. CHLA is able to offer the optimum in multidisciplinary care, with 85 pediatric subspecialties and dozens of special services for children and families. Training programs at CHLA include 320 medical students, 84 full-time residents and 75 fellows, who collectively reflect the diversity of the patient population and the city of Los Angeles. Those who receive their instruction in pediatrics at CHLA care for children in the community, throughout the United States and in countries as far away as Japan, Australia, China, Turkey and Israel. The RN Residency in Pediatrics is a 22-week program that provides new nursing school graduates with a comprehensive guided clinical experience to prepare them for work in an acute care environment.
Today, physician-scientists at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles address the most vexing pediatric medical problems and discover important new therapies for children everywhere, including advances in cancer care, gene transfer, stem cell and organ transplantation and diabetes. The Saban Research Institute of CHLA, the largest and most productive pediatric research center in the western United States, now ranks fifth in the nation in federal funding for pediatric research at stand alone pediatric facilities, including from federal agencies, like the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Established in 1966, the Jules Stein Eye Institute is a world-renowned center dedicated to the preservation of vision and the prevention of blindness. Located on the campus of UCLA, the Institute’s programs for the care of patients with eye disorders, research in the vision sciences, education in the field of ophthalmology and outreach to the community, coupled with its state-of-the art facilities, have brought national and international recognition to the Institute and the university. The Wasserman Foundation has been a proud partner of the JSEI from the very beginning and is currently awaiting the addition of the Edie and Lew Wasserman Research Center, which will complete the vision sciences campus at UCLA.
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The Los Angeles Free Clinic, in collaboration with strategic partners, provides dependable and affordable quality health care and human services in a caring environment for the underserved and those who are most vulnerable. It is a community of caring and committed individuals, made up of staff, volunteers, donors and community supporters, who have come together to provide health and human services to thousands of men, women and children in need.
The Los Angeles Free Clinic provides nearly 80,000 patient visits to 22,000 individuals each year. A highly regarded health and human services organization with three sites, 125 employees, more than 400 volunteers, and thousands of supporters, the Clinic is a safety net for the uninsured and working poor who live throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
Services at the Clinic include comprehensive medical care and dental care for children and adults, mental health counseling, prenatal care, treatment for obesity, diabetes, asthma and other chronic conditions, cancer screenings, pharmacy services, and education and outreach.
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Offered exclusively for the union and non-union entertainment community, the Motion Picture and Television Fund goes far beyond traditional health care, offering a continuum of care for the very young to the elderly by providing quality medical and surgical services, health care, child care, residential living and care for older adults, as well as social and charitable services. The MPTF is a comprehensive service organization which operates five outpatient health centers throughout the greater Los Angeles area, as well as a fully licensed, 256-bed acute-care hospital; a children’s center, a retirement community, health plans and much more. In 1998, the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Woodland Hills campus was renamed The Wasserman Campus of the Motion Picture and Television Fund in honor of the Wasserman Foundation’s long-term commitment to the Fund and to the people of the entertainment industry it serves.
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The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) was founded in 1950 to eradicate childhood nephrosis and now focuses on all diseases of the kidney and urinary tract. One in nine American adults has Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)- 26 million Americans. Another 20 million are at risk and most don’‘t know it. Through research, health screening, patient service and education initiatives, the NKF can change the course of illness for people today. Three simple tests can identify early kidney disease; NKF can provide the help health professionals, patients and their families need. The NKF also assists transplant recipients, living donors and donor families since 17 people die each day while waiting for a transplant.
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Nothing But Nets is a grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. While the UN Foundation has been working with the UN to fight malaria for years, it was a column that Rick Reilly wrote about malaria in Sports Illustrated, challenging each of his readers to donate at least $10 for the purchase of an anti-malaria bed nets—and the incredible response from thousands of Americans across the country—that led to the creation the Nothing But Nets campaign.
The reaction to Reilly’s 815 words made clear that thousands of people were ready to help the million children dying unnecessarily each year of malaria. Within a few short months, Nothing But Nets raised over 1 million dollars. And so Nothing But Nets was born.
The UN Foundation has now partnered with groups as diverse as National Basketball Association’s NBA Cares, MLS Works, The People of the United Methodist Church and Sports Illustrated to bring Nothing But Nets to the American public. These partners are joined by corporate, multi-media and financial partners to make a significant impact by raising awareness and funds to purchase and distribute bed nets and save lives.
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Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) is the largest source of reproductive health care services in Los Angeles County, providing health services to more than 58,000 people a year, 82% of whom come to the agency for birth control. PPLA’s responsible education and outreach programs deliver sexuality and family planning education to more than 76,000 teens, women and men annually, as well as work to involve people and impact decision-makers in the fight to secure and protect access to a full range of quality reproductive health care services. Working at the local, state and federal level, PPLA is an advocate for medically accurate sexuality education, contraceptive equity, clinic safety, abortion rights, and access to reproductive health care for all people.
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Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) was founded in 1960 by Dr. Jules Stein to fund and promote eye research into the causes, treatment and cure of all blinding diseases. RPB is the leading non-government supporter of eye research directed at the prevention, treatment or eradication of all diseases that threaten vision. In pursuit of this objective, they have committed millions of dollars in grant support to provide scientific manpower, technological equipment and eye research laboratory facilities. As a result, RPB researchers have been associated with nearly every major breakthrough in the understanding and treatment of the loss of vision across the past 40 years. Today, RPB provides major eye research funding to more than 50 leading scientific institutions in the U.S. and supports the work of hundreds of talented vision scientists engaged in a diverse range of disease-oriented research.
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The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1953, is the leading patient organization for people with asthma and allergies. AAFA provides practical information, community based services and support through a national network of chapters and support groups. AAFA develops health education, organizes state and national advocacy efforts and funds research to find better treatments and cures. For more than 50 years, AAFA has been a leader in fiscal responsibility and charity management. AAFA is a member of the most respected nonprofit industry groups and subscribes to the highest ethical standards:
The Asthma and Allergy of Foundation of America is the only asthma and allergy patient advocate organization in the United States to sponsor research grants. AAFA’s Investigator Research Grant Award help to fund basic science researchers to enhance the overall understanding of asthma and allergic diseases, develop improved treatments to manage these diseases, and to help in the search for cures. For more than 20 years, AAFA has enabled scientists to continue vital research through its unique grant programs. AAFA’s Investigator Research Grant Award has helped researchers to leverage more than $18 million in funding for research in asthma and allergic diseases. Approximately 80 percent of the researchers funded by AAFA are able to successfully compete for subsequent, long term funding from NIH and other national research centers.
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Woodley House is a nationally recognized model program committed to providing quality, recovery-based, comprehensive mental health service to seriously and persistently mentally ill consumers of all ages. Located in the Washington Metropolitan area, their programs care for over 200 persons with mental disabilities, providing varying degrees of support that allow clients to move towards self-sufficiency within appropriately supportive environments that meet individual recovery needs. These services are provided in normalized, natural settings and are focused on empowering consumers to live safe, healthy, enriching lives in the community. Established as a residential facility to house eleven persons suffering from mental illness who returned to the D.C. community after hospitalization, Woodley House eventually expanded its facilities with the aim of enabling clients to transition out of highly supervised hospital setting to maintaining continuity in their relationships with family, friends, jobs and therapeutic treatment.
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