7/6/2022

Funding Will Profit Down Syndrome, Music Remedy, and Behavioral Well being Packages

PITTSBURGH — UPMC Kids’s Hospital Basis right now introduced it has acquired a $2.5 million present from philanthropists Robert A. and Christine J. Pietrandrea to learn UPMC Kids’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. This vital contribution will assist the institution of the Endowed Medical Director for the Down Syndrome Middle, the addition of a brand new music therapist and endowed funds for the hospital’s music remedy program, and behavioral well being sources.

“The positions and packages we have now determined to assist maintain particular that means for me and my household,” stated Bob Pietrandrea.  “Our present to the Down Syndrome Middle is made in honor of our superb nephew, Adam, who has Down syndrome. I made a decision to dedicate our present to Music Remedy to my spouse, Chris, who has a profound love and expertise for music.”

The Down Syndrome Middle offers a system of medical experience, assist, and data in order that youngsters and adults with Down syndrome can lead wholesome and productive lives, and their households have the instruments they should information their youngsters alongside the journey from start by maturity. The institution of an Endowed Medical Director for the Down Syndrome Middle will place the Down Syndrome Middle with medical management, strategic planning, and devoted time to proceed their mission of offering affected person and family-centered care to people with Down syndrome all through their lifespan.

Music therapists with Artistic and Expressive Arts Remedy (CEAT) work with sufferers and households of all ages, serving to meet social, emotional, bodily, and physiological targets. With the addition of a brand new music therapist place and endowed funds, UPMC Kids’s will have the ability to improve the frequency and scope of companies supplied, making certain extra sufferers can expertise the numerous companies and advantages that music remedy offers, together with serving to address grief and loss, staying calm throughout checks and coverings, reducing ache and concern whereas within the hospital, and plenty of others.

UPMC Kids’s is concentrated on caring for the entire baby, integrating care by treating their psychological well being together with their bodily well being. The demand and urgency for coordinated pediatric psychological well being companies continues to rise. With elevated funding and sources, UPMC Kids’s is ready to assist the behavioral well being wants of pediatric sufferers.

“Philanthropy empowers UPMC Kids’s to go above and past within the care we offer to our kids and households,” stated Diane Hupp, president, UPMC Kids’s. “Moreover, the endowed a part of their present will present sustainable funding to gas many of those packages in perpetuity, impacting future generations of sufferers and their households. We couldn’t be extra grateful for his or her assist.”

Robert Pietrandrea, President of Railroad Growth Company, serves on the UPMC Kids’s Basis Board of Trustees.

“We’re immensely grateful to Bob and Chris Pietrandrea for this beneficiant present, and for a way thoughtfully they method their philanthropy in order that it has the best affect doable,” stated Rachel Petrucelli, president, UPMC Kids’s Hospital Basis. “This household’s ardour for making a distinction is deeply appreciated, and their present goes to the touch the lives of numerous youngsters, households, and workers at UPMC Kids’s.”