WCBS-FM Morning Show Host Scott Shannon to Emcee Blythedale Children’s Hospital’s Spring Gala

VALHALLA, N.Y. - April 8, 2014 - PRLog -- WHEN: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 6:30p.m.

WHERE: Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan
61 Chelsea Piers #300 New York, NY 10011

WHAT: Scott Shannon, host of WCBS-FM radio show “Scott Shannon in the Morning” will serve as master of ceremonies for Blythedale Children’s Hospital’s 7^th Annual Spring Event fundraiser.  Blythedale, New York’s only specialty children’s hospital will honor:

- Honorary Blythedale Board Member and former President Bob Stone and his wife, Nancy, for their decades-long commitment to Blythedale.

- Lend Lease, along with its President, Ralph Esposito, for leading the construction of our new inpatient hospital, Speech and Audiology Center.

All funds raised will support Blythedale’s research program, which is a natural outgrowth of the Hospital’s commitment to children and its culture of innovative clinical and multi-disciplinary care.

About Blythedale Children’s Hospital
As New York’s only freestanding, specialty children’s hospital, Blythedale Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving the health status and quality of life of children with complex medical illnesses and disabling conditions through superb multi-disciplinary patient care, teaching, research, and advocacy programs.  Blythedale’s board-certified physicians, nurses, clinical staff (social workers, respiratory therapists, clinical pharmacists, Child Life specialists, etc.) and New York State’s largest hospital-based pediatric therapy department (PT, OT and Speech) work together to provide intensive and innovative multi-disciplinary clinical and therapeutic care to help children achieve their medical and rehabilitative goals for independent living, and return to their communities.  Blythedale is also the only Hospital in New York State with its own on-site public school district, the Mount Pleasant Blythedale Union Free School District.  For more information about Blythedale Children’s Hospital, visit http://www.blythedale.org