Blythedale’s Annual Golf & Tennis Classic at Sunningdale Raises $225,000

Sept. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- VALHALLA (September 2012) — The Dreyfus Golf & Tennis Classic for Blythedale, held on Monday, September 10, 2012, was a great success, raising $225,000 for Blythedale’s Parent Transportation Program.  The program helps families with limited resources access transportation to the Hospital to participate in medical-care meetings, discharge planning and training related to their child’s care.

“We are grateful to the dedicated sponsors and players for the success of this event,” said Larry Levine, Blythedale President & CEO. “Helping families throughout a child’s hospitalization through the Parent Transportation Program is absolutely vital to our mission and core purpose, which is to improve the health and quality of life of medically fragile children.”

The event marked the 16th annual installment of the fundraiser and was held on the elegant and beautiful grounds of Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale. The Classic featured a full day of golf, a putting contest, raffle, auction and dinner.  Stanley Cup Champion Mike Richter returned to serve as the event’s Honorary Chair and auctioneer for a second year.

For information about next year’s Golf & Tennis Classic, please contact Christina Caras, Director of Special Events, at (914) 831-2512 or christinac@blythedale.org.

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