Children's Health Fund

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Children's Health Fund
Founded1987
FounderIrwin Redlener, MD
Paul Simon
TypeNational organization
Location
  • 215 West 125th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10027
Key people
Irwin Redlener, MD; Paul Simon; Karen Redlener
Website www.childrenshealthfund.org

Children's Health Fund (CHF) is a nonprofit organization that provides health care to children and families on mobile medical clinics throughout the United States. CHF was founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/advocate Irwin Redlener. The organization began with a single mobile medical unit funded by Simon and designed by Redlener's wife, Karen. [1] More than 20 years later, the organization has 23 programs with more than 50 mobile medical units [2] and is the nation's leading provider of mobile-based health care for homeless and low-income children and their families. [3] Karen Redlener remains with CHF, currently serving as the organization's executive director. [4]

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CHF programs are committed to the full range of children's health care from health education and preventative care [5] to the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diseases. [6] CHF programs provide or coordinate care that fosters oral and mental health, as well as specialty or hospital care. [7]

Paul Simon

In 1985, Irwin Redlener joined the board of USA for Africa as the organization's medical director and director of grants, where he met Paul Simon. [8] In 1987, Redlener and Simon founded Children's Health Fund to provide health care to homeless and medically underserved children in New York City. [9]

Throughout the years, Simon has held charity concerts and benefit events supporting CHF [10] and has traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak to elected officials on behalf of CHF. [11]

National network

CHF's National Network serve children and families in Arkansas; [12] Austin, Texas; [13] Baton Rouge, Louisiana; [14] Chicago, Illinois; [15] Dallas, Texas; [16] Detroit, Michigan; [17] Harlem, New York; [18] Idaho; [19] Los Angeles, California; [20] Memphis, Tennessee; [21] Mississippi; [22] Mississippi Gulf Coast; [23] New Orleans; [24] New York City; [25] New Jersey; [26] Orlando, Florida; [27] Phoenix, Arizona; [28] San Francisco, California; [29] South Florida; [30] Southern Arizona; [31] Washington, D.C.; [32] and West Virginia. [33]

CHF has two affiliate programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Montrose, Colorado. [34]

Advocacy

CHF supported the creation of the Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997 [35] and most recently, the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), historic health reform legislation signed into law early in 2010. [36]

Crisis response

CHF works with the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University [37] to help document and assess the impact of major disasters on children and the communities they live in. [38]

Since Hurricane Andrew, Children's Health Fund has activated a crisis response plan to help provide medical assistance to the victims of the disaster. CHF initiated this plan again after the terror attacks of 9/11 providing support at ground zero in New York City; [39] after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005; [40] and most recently after the BP Oil Spill. [41]

Awards

CHF has received a two star rating from Charity Navigator, although it previously held a four star rating. [42]

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