Subaru of America donates Tribeca SUV to the duPont Hospital for Children’s Trauma Injury Prevention Program
Wilmington, Delaware
Friday, August 29, 2008 @ 06:00 PM EDT
by: Jim Lardear, Public Relations; (302) 651-6092; jlardear@nemours.org
[photo caption]: (from left to right) Tim Tagye, Subaru Regional Marketing Specialist; Sean M. Elwell, RN, Injury Prevention Coordinator, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children; Lee Grodsky, Subaru Regional Marketing Manager, Bernard J. Clark, II, MD, VP Physician Practices, Nemours; Peter Lustgarten and Stuart Lustgarten, Concordville Subaru.
Wilmington, DE – Executives from Subaru of America, Inc. visited the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children to present the keys to a new Subaru Tribeca SUV for use by the hospital’s Trauma Injury Prevention Program in their community outreach initiatives.
Subaru will cover the cost of the vehicle lease for one year with the option for the contract to be renewed at the end of the term. Peter Lustgarten and Stuart Lustgarten, owners of Concordville Nissan-Subaru, and generous contributors to the duPont Hospital for Children, were instrumental in orchestrating this generous donation.
The duPont Hospital’s Trauma and Injury Prevention Program, funded in part by a grant from Kohl’s Care for Kids, provides education to families on child passenger safety, bicycle safety and home safety.
According to Safe Kids Worldwide (www.safekids.org) more children ages 1 to 14 die from accidental injuries such as motor vehicle crashes, fires, drowning, poisoning and falls than any other cause and many more are permanently disabled. The duPont Hospital’s 2007 trauma registry shows that falls remain the top cause for injuries, with parents being the major factor in causing or having the ability to prevent the fall.
Child passenger safety, especially the use of booster seats for children ages
4-8, continues to be a top priority for injury prevention. There were increases noted in all injury categories, but one such disturbing increase was the 38 percent increase in children who suffered abuse. Other large increases of note were a 27 percent increase in bicycle related accidents and a 64 percent increase in pedestrian accidents. There was also a significant increase in animal-related injuries and water-related injuries.
“This data shows a need for safety education for children, their parents and the other adults in the child’s life,” says Sean Elwell, RN, Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator, duPont Hospital for Children. “The Subaru Tribeca will help us to take our injury prevention messages, like our bicycle rodeos for young riders that stress the need for helmet and street safety, to neighborhoods across the Delaware Valley.”
The Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
The Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children is a division of Nemours, which operates one of the nation’s largest health systems devoted to pediatric patient care, teaching and research. Set on a beautiful 300-acre campus near Wilmington, Delaware, the 180-bed duPont Hospital for Children offers all the specialties of pediatric medicine, surgery and dentistry.
Nemours is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children. For more information, please visit Nemours.org.
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About Nemours
Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children.
Nemours owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and major children’s specialty clinics in Delaware (Wilmington), Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr) and New Jersey (Atlantic City and Voorhees). Having recently received preliminary approval from the State of Florida, Nemours will establish a new full-service children’s hospital as part of an integrated pediatric health campus in Orlando. KidsHealth.org, the world’s most visited pediatric health care Web site for parents, kids and teens, is a project of Nemours.
Nemours employs over 4,400 individuals, including 430 pediatric physicians, specialists and surgeons who cared for approximately a quarter of a million children in 2007. The organization’s goal is to align with parents, physicians, community leaders, children’s advocates and elected officials to ensure optimal wellness for every child. Additional information about Nemours can be found at www.nemours.org.
