The Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care is a unique partnership among children, families, and health professionals that is focused on advancing the practice of family-centered care at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital and beyond.

Sala’s work revolves around the belief that family-centered care—embracing children and their families as full partners with their medical team—is better care.

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Sala promotes, designs, and funds programs that advance the practice of family-centered care at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital and beyond. Our efforts are focused on four priority areas:

We foster excellent care, comfort, and well-being
We engage children and families as partners
We work as a team to eliminate preventable harm
We accelerate innovations in family-centered care

With your support for the Sala Institute, you’ll become part of a community of people helping advance the practice of family-centered care, and the care of children and families who experience complex or chronic illness.

Francis Clemente from the Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care on the Brooklyn Ferry

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Sara Damour is a Youth Advisory Council Member at the Sala Institute.

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Howard Ginsberg, MD - Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Clinical Leadership, Sala Institute

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