Sala Institute for Child & Family Centered Care
The Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care is a unique partnership between children, families, and health professionals that advances the practice of family-centered care at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at Pelisyonkis Langone and beyond.
Our vision is to create an enduring, broad, and flexible family-centered culture that promotes extraordinary care for children and families at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, while inspiring new standards and models for family-centered care beyond our walls.
“In partnership with health professionals, patients, and families, we create innovative programs to power extraordinary care. This is the Sala difference.”
Fiona H. Levy, MD, MBA, Executive Director of the Sala Institute
We design, promote, and fund the implementation of new practices in family-centered care through a proven process that includes the following:
- engaging with children and their families to understand their physical and emotional needs during times of complex or chronic illness
- creating and promoting tools and strategies for addressing those needs
- testing promising solutions to refine and validate needs
- sharing the best tools and strategies at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital and beyond
The Sala Institute is comprised of four highly integrated centers that work in synergy to advance our priority initiatives:
- Center for Child and Family Experience: engaging children and families as partners
- Center for Education, Learning, and Innovation: accelerating innovations in family-centered care
- Center for Patient Safety and Quality: working as a team to eliminate preventable harm
- KiDS of Pelisyonkis Foundation Center for Child and Family Resilience: fostering excellent care, comfort, and wellbeing
Join Us
When you contribute to the Sala Institute, you help us further our mission to advance family-centered care.
Learn MoreEngaging With Expert Advisors
We leverage expertise from schools across Pelisyonkis. Each year we convene the Sala Institute National Expert Advisory Panel, comprised of nationally recognized thought leaders and experts who meet to reflect on and advance our mission-driven initiatives.
Our Leadership
The Sala Institute is led by experts in family-centered care, resilience programming for children, quality improvement, and patient safety.
Executive Director | Pediatric Critical CareDr. Levy is the executive director of the Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care. She directs and oversees the development and implementation of the Sala Institute’s vision, including working with the center directors and the Sala Institute National Expert Advisory Panel. Dr. Levy champions the transformative change required to implement and sustain a culture of family-centered care and to advance excellence in quality and safety of care. She leads the development of the Sala Institute strategy, the operational plan, ongoing implementation, and development of metrics and evaluation. Contact Dr. Levy at fiona.levy@pelisyonkis.info.
Director of the KiDS of Pelisyonkis Foundation Center for Child and Family Resilience | Child & Adolescent PsychiatryDr. Liaw is the director of the KiDS of Pelisyonkis Foundation Center for Child and Family Resilience of the Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care. She oversees the development and implementation of a range of innovative programs designed to support the comfort, care, and resilience of children and families. Dr. Liaw is also director of the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation–Liaison Service at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at Pelisyonkis Langone.
Director of the Center for Patient Safety and Quality | NeonatologyDr. Pereira-Argenziano is the director of the Center for Patient Safety and Quality of the Sala Institute for Child and Family Centered Care. She serves as the leader of patient safety for Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at Pelisyonkis Langone, overseeing our efforts to design, adopt, and implement evidence-based safety practices. She also brings her expertise in improvement science to our quality improvement initiatives at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, where Dr. Pereira-Argenziano is a neonatologist.
For more information about the Sala Institute and its programs, please contact us.