Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

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On Cover: Christina Kim, MD, a pediatric urologist and surgeon at Connecticut Children’s, celebrates a successful outcome with Spencer Roberge, one of the first Connecticut children to undergo robotic surgery. Connecticut Children’s acquired the daVinci Surgical System used in the procedure through generous support from corporations and individuals throughout Connecticut, including a gift raised by Spencer himself.

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Investing in a Healthy Future Investing in Connecticut Children’s Medical Center touches the lives of your employees, customers and neighbors every day. That is because more than 250,000 children come through our doors annually. Whether they need a one-time visit to the Emergency Room, ongoing treatment for chronic disease, or pediatric surgery, families turn to us to access the region’s largest team of sub-specialists and caregivers devoted exclusively to kids. We care for children and families from every city and town in the state and many communities beyond. The centerpieces of our clinical care are our state-of-the-art children’s hospital facilities in Hartford and Waterbury. They are complemented by specialty care centers in Hartford, Farmington, Glastonbury and Shelton. These locations ensure every child in the state is close to our high-quality, family-centered care. Investment in Connecticut Children’s reaches far beyond the families we serve inside the walls of the

Medical Center. Through community outreach programs focused on obesity prevention, reducing asthma complications, and decreasing injury risks for children, we help thousands of kids stay safer and healthier every day. Through the CCMC School and an array of support services, we help every child in Connecticut reach his or her developmental potential. Connecticut Children’s is the region’s only academic medical center dedicated exclusively to the care of children. By supporting the Medical Center, your business becomes a partner in ensuring children have access to the highest quality of care, and makes a profound impact on the lives of the state’s families. Philanthropic support provides the resources to invest in the cutting-edge technology, equipment, research and people needed to continue to offer the highest-quality care to our region’s children. Connecticut Children’s invites your business to become a partner in achieving our mission.

Northeast Utilities is dedicated to supporting institutions that strengthen the health and economic well-being of the region. Our support of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center helps to ensure children and families have the availability of this highly regarded community asset. Charles W. Shivery

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Northeast Utilities

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In 2008, Connecticut Children’s provided more than $11.5 million in direct community benefits to the state through the provision of charity care, educating medical professionals, research, community health improvement, advocacy and community support activities.

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A Mission of Caring Our Mission Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. We embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all that we do. As the only independent freestanding children’s hospital between Boston and Philadelphia, we know that caring for children is completely different than caring for adults. No one in the region has a better understanding of a child’s needs and the care options available for them and their families than we do. Because we are all about caring for kids all of the time, we are able to attract the most talented pediatricians and pediatric sub-specialists to Connecticut Children’s. This high level of professionalism and specialization ensures our patients and families receive the highest-quality pediatric care possible. There are four key ways we fulfill our mission today and will increase our capacity and impact the future. Clinical Care Connecticut Children’s was created in 1996 to ensure that the region’s children can access a full range of high-quality care in an environment designed especially for them. Even as we grew to accommodate nearly twice as many patient visits last year compared to our first year, we have remained committed to that goal. As we grow in the years ahead, we will continue our commitment to helping as many children as possible, as close to home as possible. The children and families for whom we care are at the center of everything we do. We partner with parents in all aspects of care because nobody knows their children as well as they do. This partnership ensures children receive outstanding care that is responsive to their emotional and physical needs, while respectful of each family’s traditions and values.

Advocacy Promoting children’s health goes beyond providing medical and surgical services. It also includes preventing illness and injury, helping children reach their full developmental and educational potential, and working to build healthy families in healthy communities. We work with schools, community leaders, government agencies, parents, service providers, business leaders and legislators to ensure children and families throughout Connecticut are healthier, safer and better-informed about issues that affect the quality of their lives every day. From stronger booster seat requirements for toddlers to better driver education and safer learning conditions for older children, we have worked with our partners to keep all kids safer. We remain committed to working with broad coalitions to address issues that impact children’s health, from asthma to obesity to healthy child development and school readiness.

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Pfizer and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center share a mission of improving health. We are pleased to support them, and their efforts to advance this mission. By providing the best care possible to the children of our region and their families. Toni Hoover, PhD

Pfizer, Senior Vice President, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Site Director, Groton/New London Laboratories

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Partners for Connecticut’s Families Research Our commitment to our patients’ health does not stop at the bedside. Our physician scientists conduct important research into many pediatric diseases and disorders. In addition, they explore how diseases that affect people of all ages, from cancer to diabetes, impact kids. Our talented doctors conduct research across a broad spectrum. They understand that research will lead to innovations in treatments and cures for kids for whom they care and around the globe. That is why they work to discover how digestive diseases impact bone health, ways to prevent sports injuries, how to help the earliest premature babies’ respiratory systems develop, and how to manage children’s pain most effectively. Connecticut Children’s has a vibrant clinical trials program, which allows our physicians to offer cutting-edge

therapies that are not yet available at many hospitals. We have active trials in nearly all practice areas of the Medical Center, with a particular strength in our cancer clinical trials program. Education As the home of the UConn School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Surgery, the Medical Center teaches the state’s next generation of pediatricians. Our residency program offers one of two programs in the state for specialists to work with children. Doctors in every specialty, from cardiology to urology, train with us to learn how to address the special needs of children. Connecticut Children’s also offers a comprehensive array of education programs for practicing physicians, school nurses, allied health workers and other medical professionals in the community to remain current with developments in their disciplines.

The possibility for children around the world to grow, play and develop has always been important to the LEGO Group. We see a similar passion to ensure the healthy growth and development for all children in the mission of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and that’s why we are so pleased and proud to be a corporate partner with Connecticut Children’s. Søren Torp Laursen

President, LEGO Americas

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At Hoffman Auto Group, we recognize how vitally important it is for the children and families of the communities we serve to have access to the highest quality of pediatric health care. Through the Burton C. Hoffman Golf Classic, we are supporting Connecticut Children’s and ultimately our employees and customers whose children benefit from this tremendous regional resource. Jeffrey Hoffman

Co-Chairman, Hoffman Auto Group

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Make an Investment Philanthropic support of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center demonstrates your company’s commitment to keeping our most precious resource – the children in our communities – healthy, and leaves a lasting impression on employees, customers and clients. There are many ways to make strategic investments in Medical Center programs and priorities that align with your corporate mission and values. Whether you support a specific department or designate your donation for use across the Medical Center, your business can help acquire state-of-the-art technology, expand health outreach initiatives, sustain important research, or provide financial resources directly to families in need. Businesses of any type or size can invest in the region’s families through many channels, including: Corporate Contributions allow your company to help fund programs with the greatest need at the Medical Center. Event Sponsorships reach key target audiences while demonstrating support for Connecticut’s families. Many events benefiting the Medical Center draw community and media attention and provide opportunities for employee involvement as well. Cause Marketing builds customer trust and loyalty while strategically linking your business with the important mission of Connecticut Children’s.

Through an Employee Giving program, you can encourage employees to provide children with the care they deserve and align your corporate support with employees’ passion. All corporate donors of $5,000 or more a year are recognized as members of the President’s Circle of Giving, allowing your company to join an exemplary group of community-committed businesses whose support of children and families is highly visible, wide-reaching and life-saving.

Through the Aces for Kids golf tournament supporting Connecticut Children’s, TCI can engage many of our employees, suppliers, customers and friends in a cause that is our number-one priority. We all rally around Connecticut Children’s mission through this event and the Medical Center’s goal of providing exceptional medical care for children and their families. Glen Greenberg President, TCI Inc.

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