Community June 04, 2009
Employees walked the walks this spring!
March for Babies
Under the leadership of Michael Apkon, MD, vice president and executive director,Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, more than 150 employees, familyand friends laced up and walked up to 6.5 miles around Lighthouse Point forthe March for Babies on Sunday, April 26. In total, this energetic group raisednearly $14,000, which will help March of Dimes fight premature births.
The Walk to Empower
Marna P. Borgstrom, president and CEO, was this year’s regionalchair of the Breast Cancer Network of Strength’s Walk to Empower.More than 600 Yale-New Haven Hospital employees, families andfriends did the 3-mile walk around Lighthouse Point Park onMother’s Day to support people with breast cancer through earlydetection, support groups, teen workshops, wigs and prostheses.The group raised more than $28,500.
American Heart Association
The hospital’s Heart and Vascular Center organizeda spirited group of walkers for yetanother three miles around the well-troddenand lovely Lighthouse Point Park on Sunday,May 17. Mariane Carna, RN, executive directorof the Heart and Vascular Center, reports that --despite cold and drizzly weather -- more than200 YNHH employees, family, friends — anddogs — raised nearly $15,000 for the importantwork of the American Heart Association.
