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Opening Valentine’s day 1994, Hasbro Children’s Hospital has been a passion project from the start. Today the internationally acclaimed facility calls on their team of over 200 physicians and 130 nurses who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of over 40 pediatric specialty areas including neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, and surgery. If you are in New England and need medical services for your child that is outside the typical spectrum of pediatric conditions, you will likely be referred to Hasbro. What sets Hasbro apart from other children’s hospitals is that it’s the only pediatric imaging and sedation center in the region and houses the state’s only 24/7 critical care team. Hasbro has one of the few centers that perform fetal surgeries and intervention methods. The American Burn Association and American College of Surgeons choose Hasbro as a designated burn center.

I became involved with Hasbro after a nurse from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that we respect dearly moved to Hasbro. Hasbro offers excellent auxiliary programs such as one for sleep disturbances. Likewise, our family foundation played a large part in the creation of their palliative care program. We hope to draw awareness to this exceptional facility and the important work they are doing through his civic engagements and public platform.

My family is driven by their positive experience with the hospital and in witnessing the anguish of families like their own who remain strong during their child’s unfortunate battle. The palliative care program provides inpatient consultation services for families as well as educates providers about palliative care which focuses on keeping the patient comfortable while maintaining the highest quality of life despite acute injury or illness. After seeing the struggles experienced by families around them, I believe that when you see the effects of these life-threatening circumstances, you can’t help but be compelled to get involved.

Hasbro Children’s Hospital is also involved in the prevention of disease and supports child welfare initiatives. As oxygen is the element that sustains life on Earth, when children have trouble breathing because of poor air quality, it damages their lungs and inhibits their ability to participate in strenuous activity. Our community-wide program for asthma education, management, and support aims to improve the quality of life for those children who have asthma. Likewise, the diabetes education program is the only one in New England that helps families adjust to new-onset diabetes in outpatient settings. Their passion for the protection of children has garnered them international acclaim for their child protection program which identifies and acts to protect abused and neglected children.