Medical Missions for Children is an independent, non-profit organization that works to improve health outcomes for our world's most critically ill children by providing individual telemedicine consultations and implementing education programs focused on narrowing the knowledge gap between healthcare providers in the United States and those in the developing world. MMC focuses on "transferring medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it" using a state-of-the-art communications infrastructure in order to touch the lives of more than one million critically ill children each year.
Medical Missions for Children was founded in 1999 by Frank and Peg Brady. Its Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network (GTTN) currently serves over 100 countries throughout Latin America/Caribbean, Africa, North America, Asia/Pacific, Eastern Europe/Central Asia and the Middle East.
The Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network (GTTN) comprises several programs:
The Medical Broadcasting Channel - A 24/7/365 channel airing medical programming via satellite broadcast, Internet2, and IPTV Networks.
The Telemedicine Outreach Program - a network of 27 tier-one mentoring hospitals in the United States and Europe linking to hospitals and institutions in more than 100 countries.
This Medical Missions for Children/Paterson, NJ (MMC) should not be confused with Medical Missions for Children (MMFC), a 501(3)(c) charity based in Woburn, Massachusetts, that sends 13-15 surgical, medical and dental missions around the world each year to care for impoverished children who suffer from cleft deformities, microtia (absence of ear), head and neck abnormalities and severe, untreated burn injuries
Television programsedit
MMC currently produces four healthcare series, several of which have been broadcast on the New Jersey Network, the predecessor to NJTV, New Jersey's affiliate of PBS.
Tomorrow's Medicine Today
Plain Talk About Health
Take Care
Healthy U
The Giggles Children's Theateredit
Located at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, the Giggles Children's Theater (Giggles) draws its curtains twice each week to bring the healing powers of laughter through the performing arts to hospitalized children in Paterson. Each performance is broadcast live on the hospital's closed-circuit TV system so that no child is excluded due to sickness or incapacity. Each performance is also recorded and rebroadcast so that 10 shows per week are offered on the hospital's Giggles TV channel.
In April 2007 a second Giggles theater opened at The Children's Inn located at the campus of the National Institutes of Health.
Awards and honorsedit
Co-Founder, Frank Brady, named 2008 World of Children Health Award Honoree[6]
Johnson & Johnson Best Health & Arts Award for Giggle's Children's Theater (2005)
CHEST Foundation's 2005 Humanitarian Recognition Award presented to Dr. Roberto Nachajon of St. Joseph's Children's Hospital for his contributions to Medical Missions for Children (2005)
Executive Director, Peg Brady named Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Fairleigh Dickinson University's Rothman Institute (2005)
Healthcare Informatics Award (2004)
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition (2003)
Federal 100 Award (2003)
Lifetime Achievement Award National Hispanic Medical Association (2001)
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^"World of Children Award Health Award". World of Children Award. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
External linksedit
Medical Missions for Children's official website 2007-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
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Medical Missions for Children is an independent non profit organization that works to improve health outcomes for our world s most critically ill children by providing individual telemedicine consultations and implementing education programs focused on narrowing the knowledge gap between healthcare providers in the United States and those in the developing world MMC focuses on transferring medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it using a state of the art communications infrastructure in order to touch the lives of more than one million critically ill children each year Contents 1 About 2 The Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network 3 Television programs 4 The Giggles Children s Theater 5 Awards and honors 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksAbout editMedical Missions for Children was founded in 1999 by Frank and Peg Brady Its Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network GTTN currently serves over 100 countries throughout Latin America Caribbean Africa North America Asia Pacific Eastern Europe Central Asia and the Middle East MMC is located on the campus of St Joseph s Regional Medical Center in Paterson New Jersey It is a major stakeholder in The Hamiltonian 1 a 14 story hotel and conference center projected to open in 2016 2 3 4 5 The Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network editThe Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network GTTN comprises several programs The Medical Broadcasting Channel A 24 7 365 channel airing medical programming via satellite broadcast Internet2 and IPTV Networks The Telemedicine Outreach Program a network of 27 tier one mentoring hospitals in the United States and Europe linking to hospitals and institutions in more than 100 countries This Medical Missions for Children Paterson NJ MMC should not be confused with Medical Missions for Children MMFC a 501 3 c charity based in Woburn Massachusetts that sends 13 15 surgical medical and dental missions around the world each year to care for impoverished children who suffer from cleft deformities microtia absence of ear head and neck abnormalities and severe untreated burn injuriesTelevision programs editMMC currently produces four healthcare series several of which have been broadcast on the New Jersey Network the predecessor to NJTV New Jersey s affiliate of PBS Tomorrow s Medicine Today Plain Talk About Health Take Care Healthy UThe Giggles Children s Theater editLocated at St Joseph s Children s Hospital the Giggles Children s Theater Giggles draws its curtains twice each week to bring the healing powers of laughter through the performing arts to hospitalized children in Paterson Each performance is broadcast live on the hospital s closed circuit TV system so that no child is excluded due to sickness or incapacity Each performance is also recorded and rebroadcast so that 10 shows per week are offered on the hospital s Giggles TV channel In April 2007 a second Giggles theater opened at The Children s Inn located at the campus of the National Institutes of Health Awards and honors editCo Founder Frank Brady named 2008 World of Children Health Award Honoree 6 Four Star Rating from Charity Navigator 2005 2006 2007 Computer World 21st Century Achievement Award 2007 World Bank Global Development Finalist 2007 Stockholm Challenge 2006 Purpose Prize Fellow 2006 Tech Museum Laureate 2006 IESC Award 2006 Contact Center World Award 2006 Intelligent Community Award 2006 Johnson amp Johnson Best Health amp Arts Award for Giggle s Children s Theater 2005 CHEST Foundation s 2005 Humanitarian Recognition Award presented to Dr Roberto Nachajon of St Joseph s Children s Hospital for his contributions to Medical Missions for Children 2005 Executive Director Peg Brady named Female Entrepreneur of the Year by Fairleigh Dickinson University s Rothman Institute 2005 Healthcare Informatics Award 2004 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition 2003 Federal 100 Award 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award National Hispanic Medical Association 2001 See also editMedical missionsReferences edit The Hamiltonian Garret Mountain Associates Archived from the original on 2014 11 21 Retrieved 2014 12 06 Medical Missions for Children Hilton Doubletree Emporis Archived from the original on December 16 2014 Retrieved 2014 12 10 Prochilo Dan August 11 2014 Developer predicts 150M Paterson hotel will be very very busy Emporis Archived from the original on September 24 2015 Retrieved 2014 12 10 Ma Myles August 7 2014 100 million Paterson hotel to break ground in October The Star Ledger Retrieved 2014 12 10 Malinconico Joe December 10 2013 Paterson hotel project at hospital gets 105 million in state funding NorthJersey com Retrieved 2014 12 10 World of Children Award Health Award World of Children Award Retrieved 2014 08 25 External links editMedical Missions for Children s official website Archived 2007 11 24 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Medical Missions for Children amp oldid 1111253896, wikipedia, 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