The John Rex Endowment (www.rexendowment.org), a nonprofit alignment that invests in activities and organizations that advance the bloom of underserved people, appear today that Dr. Jean C. Smith and Dr. Jerry Bernstein were the recipients of the 2008 Hands of Health Award. The accolade was presented to them for implementing avant-garde health-related initiatives that account Wake County’s underserved accouchement and youth.
Smith and Bernstein were presented a distinctively commissioned brownish carve during the fifth anniversary Hands of Health Award breakfast captivated Oct. 21 at Marbles Kids Museum. In addition, the John Rex Endowment contributes $10,000 to anniversary recipient's alms of choice.
“Jean and Jerry accept committed their careers to advancing the bloom of accouchement in the area,” said Kevin Cain, admiral and CEO of the John Rex Endowment. “We were appreciative to admit them for their efforts.”
Smith, a physician with Wake County Human Services, was accustomed for her adherence to announcement the advantageous concrete and brainy development of children. She has led the Children’s Health and Development Program that provides absolute bloom casework for abused and alone children, and the Pediatric Development Surveillance Program that trains doctors to accomplish adorning screenings, a allotment of others programs.
Bernstein, co-founder of Raleigh Pediatric Associates, was accustomed for his eyes in convalescent and adopting the accepted of pediatric bloom affliction for all Wake County children. He was a active force in the enactment of the WakeMed Children’s Emergency Department and the soon-to-open WakeMed Children’s Hospital. Bernstein aswell helped authorize a bounded pediatric physician training program.
To be eligible, nominees had to be paid agents or volunteers who abide or plan in Wake County and accept begin new and avant-garde means to abode the bloom affliction needs of underserved accouchement or adolescence in Wake County.
Past winners of the accolade cover Peter Morris, MD, Don Rosenblitt, MD, Mark Piehl, MD, Yo Sobha, Kathy Higgins and Liliana Berman. On their behalf, the Endowment has fabricated donations to the North Carolina Pediatric Society Foundation, the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood, the Durham Rescue Mission/Good Samaritan Inn, Camp Challenge Diabetes Camp at Camp Oak Hill, Camp Grace at A.E. Finley YMCA, Be Active North Carolina and the Making Magic Alliance.
About the John Rex Endowment:
The John Rex Endowment invests in the development and abutment of activities, programs and organizations that advance the bloom of underserved humans in Wake and surrounding counties. Currently, the John Rex Endowment supports arresting and assessable improvements in the bloom of accouchement and adolescence by convalescent acceptance to bloom services, by announcement advantageous behaviors and by accouterment opportunities for advance and development. Since 2001, the John Rex Endowment has fabricated a banking charge of about $20 actor to 87 alone projects. For added information, visit: www.rexendowment.org.
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