Accenthealth.com Will Donate a Total of $100,000 to Five Juvenile Charities; Web Users Can Vote Online Until November 30 to Make Final Decision On Allocation of Cash Gifts.ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1999-- Users Can Log Onto www.accenthealth.com To Vote For Their Favorite Juvenile Charity And To Nominate a Special Child for a $1,000 Cash Grant Accenthealth.com, the healthy living site with a commitment to the health and well being of its users and their families, has announced it will make a total cash donation of $100,000 to five national juvenile charities, and $1,000 donations to each of five children with a terminal or life threatening illness. The decision on how to allocate the funds will be made by Web users who can vote for their favorite charities at www.accenthealth.com and nominate a seriously ill A patient is seriously ill when his or her illness is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent danger to life. See also very seriously ill. child to receive one of the five donations of $1,000 each. Online voting ends at 11:59:59 p.m. EST on November 30, 1999, at which time all votes will be tallied and the winners announced. AccentHealth has pre-selected five juvenile charities. They are the American Juvenile Arthritis Juvenile Arthritis Definition Juvenile arthritis (JA), also called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), refers to a number of different conditions, all of which strike children, and all of which have immune-mediated joint inflammation as their major Organization, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation was founded in 1988 by Elizabeth Glaser, Susan DeLaurentis, and Susie Zeegen. Glaser and her husband, actor Paul Michael Glaser, learned that Mrs. Glaser had been infected with HIV through a blood transfusion. , Juvenile Diabetes juvenile diabetes n. Insulin-dependent diabetes. Foundation International, Make-A-Wish Foundation The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that grants wishes to children (2.5 years to 18 years old) with life-threatening medical conditions. , National Childhood Cancer Foundation.(1) They were chosen in a special online vote by AccentHealth's nationwide team of medical practice administrators who make up AccentHealth, Inc.'s Waiting Room Television Network family. "Accenthealth.com is gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to be able to award this sum to five such outstanding juvenile charities, all of whom work so hard and so well for children's health Children's Health Definition Children's health encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of children from infancy through adolescence. ," said Edith Hodkinson, vice president of marketing for AccentHealth, Inc. "We hope these donations will help raise awareness among consumers of the serious illnesses that affect children and the organizations that help fight them." The charity that gets the highest number of votes will receive a $50,000 donation from AccentHealth; the charity with the second highest will receive $20,000; and each of the three remaining charities will receive $10,000 each. AccentHealth will also provide $1,000 in financial assistance to each of five children with a terminal or life-threatening illness. Users have the opportunity to nominate a special child to receive this donation at the Web site. About AccentHealth, Inc. AccentHealth, Inc, is a leading provider of reliable health care information to consumers through its Waiting Room Television Network and www.accenthealth.com Web site. AccentHealth's Waiting Room Television Network provides health-related programming, produced and co-branded with CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , to 17 million medical waiting room visitors each month, and reaches more than 50,000 healthcare professionals at their offices. AccentHealth's www.accenthealth.com Web site provides consumer-oriented information and interactive tools designed to help Internet users more effectively manage their health needs. AccentHealth is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and Rockville, Maryland. (1) The American Juvenile Arthritis Organization, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS pediatric AIDS AIDS acquired HIV perinatally or by 'vertical'–maternal-infant transmission; children with PAIDS may become symptomatic–lymphoid interstitial pneumonia, encephalopathy, recurrent bacterial infection, Candida Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Make-A-Wish Foundation, National Childhood Cancer Foundation or any other charitable organization that may receive a donation pursuant to this program neither endorses nor recommends accenthealth.com. |
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