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April, 23 2010 - Ladies Hospital Aid Society

What: Reception, Luncheon and Presentation by Preston Bailey

Where: Fairmont Hotel, Downtown Pittsburgh

When: April 23, 2010

Time: 10:30 AM

Executive Director: Dee Dee Troutman

Welcome: Laura Penrod Kronk, President Ladies Hospital Aid Society

Speaker: Preston Bailey

Catering: Fairmont Hotel, Downtown Pittsburgh

Attendance: 200 + Guests

Attire: Business

Blacktie Photos by: Jill M. Kummer

Ladies Hospital Aid Society presents Preston Bailey with guests Laura Penrod Kronk, Nadine Bognar, Catherine Loevner and Bonnie Walker
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In 1898, Ladies Hospital Aid Society began its long history of community service when 17 women met to address the pressing needs of the sick and the poor living in their neighborhoods. These women also were concerned with the troubles facing the immigrant population, which suffered from indigence, homelessness and lack of adequate medical care. Referring to themselves as the Hebrew Ladies Hospital Aid Society, this group set membership dues at 10 cents a week and made arrangements with existing hospitals to pay ward rates for patients admitted under their auspices.

Ladies Hospital Aid Society continued to prosper and among its many accomplishments was the opening of the original Montefiore Hospital in 1908, and the construction of the current site in 1929. LHAS raised more than $5 million for Montefiore Hospital and initiated and funded the Follow-Me-Home Program and the LHAS Ambulatory Surgical Center. In 1990, Montefiore Hospital was sold to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

LHAS in turn expanded its mission and has remained responsive to changing health care needs of the entire Western Pennsylvania community. LHAS has implemented programs for the elderly and women’s health care, including the LHAS Arbor at Weinberg Village, LHAS Prevention and Early Detection Center at the Hillman Cancer Center, and the LHAS Women’s Heart Center. Fulfilling our commitment to education, LHAS has allocated thousands of dollars for college scholarship grants to future health care professionals and nursing students.

Most recently LHAS furthered its mission by major fund raising efforts to support the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Concussion Research with UPMC Department of Orthaeopedic Surgery, and the UPMC GI Department to benefit pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and other digestive diseases.