St. Vincent's Hospital Receives $50,000 Grant From the Ong Family Foundation
01/15/2010
Media Contact: Kate Sotiridy
(212) 604-7961
--Multi-Year Grant will fund the Renovation of Chinese Inpatient Unit
Waiting Area--
New York, NY, November 17, 2006 -- St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan received a $50,000 multi-year grant from the Ong Family Foundation. The funds will be used to renovate the Chinese Unit Family visitation area on Coleman 15 West.
Mr. Nelson Lewis, executive officer of the Ong Family Foundation, presented a check to Len Walsh, executive director of St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, for the renovation.
“We are extremely grateful to the Ong Family Foundation for their generous past and present support of our programs that serve the Chinese community,” said Len Walsh, executive director of St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan. “The new renovations made possible by the Ong Family Foundation donation will serve as a comfortable place for visitors, furthering our mission to better serve our Chinese patients and families.”
St. Vincent’s is proud to be celebrating the 30th anniversary of service to the Chinatown community. Among the services to the Chinatown community are the Living at Home Program, our Chinatown Clinic, the Medical Practice of St. Margaret’s House, as well as our partnership with the Chinese American Planning Council to offer scholarships to help members of the Chinatown community pursue careers in healthcare. St. Vincent’s has expanded service at the hospital to now include a Chinese inpatient unit featuring bilingual staff, Chinese cuisine, acupuncture and other complementary healing services.
St. Vincent’s Hospital has had the honor of serving the Chinatown community with high quality primary and specialty services for more than 30 years. The hospital is working to enhance these services, which currently include:
· Language interpreter services in the emergency department and throughout the hospital.
· Chinese Speaking Hospitalist whose primary focus is to provide medical care to hospitalized patients and to maintain the ongoing involvement of the patient’s primary care physician throughout the hospitalization.
· 24 hour Chinese speaking telephone hotline to help to navigate the healthcare system (1-800-994-7018)
· Opening an inpatient Asian unit to include Chinese physicians, Chinese-speaking staff, an Asian menu and ambiance, acupuncture for pain management and herbal medications;
· Five Chinese Satellite Television Stations including The Jade Channel – East, The Jade Channel – West, TVBS, The Chinese Movie Channel and CCTV-4.
· Menus in Chinese offering congee.
· St. Vincent’s employs some 240 Chinese staff and has 23 Chinese residents in its various residency training programs.
· Some 178 Chinese physicians, both employed and voluntary, are affiliated with the hospital. They serve in the areas of anesthesiology, cardiology, emergency medicine, endocrinology, family practice, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, nephrology, neurology, nuclear medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonary diseases, radiation oncology and rheumatology as well as in general surgery and surgical subspecialties.
St. Vincent’s Director of Asian Services, Frances Wong is overseeing a number of initiatives aimed at enhancing services to the Chinese community. For questions, comments, or employment opportunities, please call Ms. Wong at (212) 604-7889.
