Latest Children's Health Fund Stories
Bill greatly increases the country's preparedness by including provisions critical to protecting children's needs in the wake of a disaster NEW YORK, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Children's Health Fund (CHF), and Save the Children applaud Congress for its recent bipartisan passage of the Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 (PAHPRA), a bill to improve the nation's public health and medical preparedness...
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The president made a strong case for universal early education in America, along with raising the minimum wage. But his commitment to eliminate extreme poverty and save children from preventable deaths was focused on children of the world. All of this is, of course laudable. But we hoped to hear a commitment to eliminate child poverty in America where more than 16 million children face challenges that undermine their futures - and...
Rhetoric of Compassion in Cleveland Speech Contrasts Sharply with Budget Proposals That Would Devastate Safety Net Programs for Poor NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reaction to Congressman Paul Ryan's "poverty speech" delivered at a campaign rally in Cleveland Wednesday has been intense from individuals and organizations that work with the more than one in five U.S. children whose families exist at or below federal poverty levels. The number of families living in...
LONDON, October 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- British music entrepreneur thanked at historic 25th Anniversary Children's Health Fund concert at Radio City Music Hall. Tonight in New York, British music entrepreneur Simon Fuller was honoured in front of an audience of 5,000 music fans at the historic Radio City Music Hall at a star-studded benefit concert to mark the 25th year of the Children's Health Fund. At the concert, Simon Fuller...
Children's Health Fund, dedicated to providing mobile-based pediatric medical care to children across the country, will celebrate 25 years with benefit concert on October 4 NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Health Fund (CHF) will mark its 25th year of bringing pediatric mobile medical care to tens of thousands of underserved children in urban and rural areas throughout the United States with a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, October...
NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sting, Trudie Styler, Steve Martin, Ruben Blades, and Luba Mason have joined previously announced stars Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Tina Fey, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Amy Grant, and Vince Gill, for a benefit concert that showcases some of America's most talented families. Paul Simon will also take the stage, alongside wife Edie Brickell at this once-in-a-lifetime evening. The benefit marks the 25(th) anniversary milestone of the...
NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Health Fund (CHF) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Party City that encourages consumers nationwide to help bring much-needed doctors' visits to thousands of poor and homeless children. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091204/DC21355LOGO</font>) From December 5 through December 31, Party City customers can support CHF with dollar donations collected at the...
NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Health Fund (CHF) is pleased to announce MetLife Foundation's support of its national oral health initiative, Healthy Kids, Healthy Smiles. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091204/DC21355LOGO) MetLife Foundation's $500,000 grant will help support oral health care for low-income and homeless children and families primarily via mobile dental clinics in New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas and Washington, D.C. The funding...
Children's Health Fund Doctors Speak Up to Super Committee: Don't Cut Medicaid NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Children's Health Fund (CHF) released a video containing statements from legendary singer/songwriter and CHF co-Founder, Paul Simon, CHF President and co-Founder, Irwin Redlener, MD and Medical Directors from CHF programs across the country addressing the impact that potential cuts to Medicaid and CHIP would have on kids. CHF doctors provide pediatric care to...
NEW YORK, July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement is by Children's Health Fund Co-Founder and President Irwin Redlener, M.D.: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091204/DC21355LOGO) "With Medicaid under attack in legislatures across the country, this historic study reinforces the need for low-income families to have access to comprehensive and continuous health care. "Structural changes, such as block-granting and spending caps, endanger the proven benefits...
