The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation Delivers Cancer Patient Care Packages to SIUH

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Feb. 24, 2016 - PRLog -- Staten Island, NY, February 19, 2016 – The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation (www.jaimeslilac.org) delivered the first shipment of cancer patient care packages to the Staten Island University Hospital (http://www.siuh.edu/) on Friday, February 19, 2016.  This shipment contained over 50 care packages, which will go to cancer patients in order to help mitigate cancer symptoms and treatment side effects.

“We are so happy to be able to help these patients as they continue their fight with cancer.” Said The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation Vice President Adam Moltisanti.  “We hope these packages are able to ease some of their symptoms and help during these difficult times.”

Medical and Nursing staff from the Staten Island university Hospital were on site to receive this large shipment of cancer patient care packages.  In order to commemorate this important event, NY 1 News (www.ny1.com) filmed the delivery for a segment that will air on February 19, 2016.  This marks the first set of care packages the foundation will provide to the hospital.  The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation is actively fund raising in order to finance more cancer patient care packages, which will be regularly delivered to cancer patients being treated at the Staten Island University Hospital.

To learn more about The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation, or to make a donation, please visit www.jaimeslilac.org.  If you would like to learn more about this story, please visit the foundation Facebook page:  Facebook - The Jaime's Lilac Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/Jaimes-Lilac-Foundation-45059506...).

About The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation

The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation (www.jaimeslilac.org) is a 501 (C)(3) charitable organization and was formed in 2014 in loving memory of Jaime Moltisanti Cucuzza.  Jaime was a caring, vivacious young woman who succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 38, leaving behind her husband and daughter.  To honor her memory, Jaime’s friends and family formed The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation in order to fund cancer research and provide care packages to cancer patients.   The Jaime’s Lilac Foundation sources donations in order to further Jaime’s courageous fight, which is embodied by the Lilac acronym: Laughter, Inspiration, and Love Against Cancer.

About Staten Island University Hospital

Founded in 1861, Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) is a fully accredited 775-bed, not-for-profit, voluntary healthcare system with campuses in the Ocean Breeze and Princes’ Bay communities of Richmond County, the fastest growing borough in New York City.  A teaching hospital with leading centers of excellence, Staten Island University Hospital is a major affiliate of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. SIUH is home to one of three Regional Burn Centers in New York City and the nation’s busiest in treating pediatric burns. The Heart Institute of Staten Island, located on the SIUH campus, is recognized for its pioneering minimally invasive cardiac surgery. SIUH continues top tier placement in the federal government’s CMS indicators for quality of care viewable on the Hospital Compare Website.