REMINDER/Family House to Open 10th Avenue Location; Pioneering Agency Will Provide Second Home Away from Home For Families of Seriously Ill Children Being Treated at UCSF.News Editors/Medical & Assignment Writers REMINDER...for Saturday (Oct. 26) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHO: The Families, UCSF Physicians, Staff, Community, and Board Members of Family House WHAT: Family House will open new doors to families of seriously ill children with the dedication of its new facility at 1234 10th Avenue. The public is invited to join in the celebration at the new location that will accommodate 24 families while their children are undergoing treatment at University of California San Francisco Medical Center. It will triple the current capacity offered by Family House and will now serve over 2,000 families per year. WHEN: 3:00 P.M. DEDICATION 2:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2002 WHERE: FAMILY HOUSE 1234 TENTH AVENUE, between Lincoln and Irving Streets San Francisco, California WHY: The new Family House location will increase accommodations for families over threefold. UCSF medical personnel who saw families sleeping on mats in the pediatric ward or in their cars while their children were undergoing treatment opened the original Family House in 1981. Family House provides a semblance of normalcy and support during one of life's most devastating crises: child with a life-threatening illness. The Board of Directors of Family House decided to meet the increasing needs by purchasing and renovating an additional building near the hospital and across from Golden Gate Park to supplement the original home at 50 Irving Street. Since opening over 20 years ago, occupancy has stood at 100%. The need for greater capacity grows daily as more and more families from around the Bay Area, the US and the entire world travel to UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco , one of the country's leading centers providing up to date and comprehensive and treatment for children with cancer and other serious diseases. Family House serves families of children with cancer, serious heart disease requiring open-heart surgery open-heart surgery Any surgical procedure opening the heart and exposing one or more of its chambers, most often to repair valve disease or correct congenital heart malformations (see congenital heart disease). , liver failure liver failure Clinical medicine Liver insufficiency that results in death, requires a liver transplant, or is characterized by recovery after encephalopathy, or while awaiting a transplant; also defined as a condition with ≥ 3 of following: albumin < 3. requiring transplantation transplantation /trans·plan·ta·tion/ (trans?plan-ta´shun) the grafting of tissues taken from the patient's own body or from another. and chronic pulmonary pulmonary /pul·mo·nary/ (pool´mo-nar?e) 1. pertaining to the lungs. 2. pertaining to the pulmonary artery. pul·mo·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or affecting the lungs. disease like cystic fibrosis cystic fibrosis (sĭs`tĭk fībrō`sĭs), inherited disorder of the exocrine glands (see gland), affecting children and young people; median survival is 25 years in females and 30 years in males. who travel to UCSF for treatment. It also provides accommodations for pregnant women in the hospital's fetal surgery Open fetal surgery is an invasive form of fetal intervention in the treatment of birth defects where the pregnant uterus is opened up for direct surgery on the fetus. Overview program, the first in the world. The purchase, renovation and operation of the new and existing houses are provided by private funds from individuals, foundations and corporations. There is no mandatory charge for accommodations at Family House. Families are asked to donate what they can afford. Contact: Alexandra Morgan Morgan, American family of financiers and philanthropists. Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. , Executive Director, 415/476-0160 or 415/407-1448; amorgan737@aol.com. You are Cordially Invited to Cover |
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