CN to match up to $300,000 to
fund Pediatric Intensive Care Unit expansion
NEW ORLEANS, LA, April 21, 2015 /CNW/ - Today, Ochsner Hospital
for Children announced that it has been selected as the sole U.S.
beneficiary of the 2015 CN Miracle Match campaign, a charitable
initiative to rally communities to support children's hospitals in
North America. CN will match up to
$300,000 in donations to Ochsner
Hospital for Children this year. Ochsner Hospital for Children is
only the second U.S. institution to be selected since the program
began in 2006.
Funds raised in support of Ochsner Hospital Children as of
December 31, 2015 through a variety
of events and initiatives will be matched through the CN Miracle
Match program.
"We are tremendously grateful to CN for their support of the
world-class care we provide to children and families across the
region," said Vincent Adolph, M.D.,
Interim Pediatrics Chair, Ochsner Hospital for Children. "Proceeds
from the CN Miracle Match will be used to help us expand our
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. This will help us care for even more
children with highly complex medical conditions."
Claude Mongeau, president and
chief executive of CN, said: "Strong, healthy communities,
particularly healthy young people, are at the fore of our community
investment focus. We are pleased to work with the Ochsner Hospital
for Children to help raise donations that will improve the quality
of health care available to children across the regions served by
the hospital."
About Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health System is Louisiana's largest non-profit, academic
healthcare system. Driven by a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead,
Educate and Innovate, coordinated clinical and hospital patient
care is provided across the region by Ochsner's 13 owned, managed
and affiliated hospitals and more than 50 health centers. Ochsner
is the only Louisiana hospital
recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a "Best Hospital"
across nine specialty categories caring for patients from all 50
states and more than 90 countries worldwide each year Ochsner
employs more than 15,000 employees, nearly 1,000 physicians in over
90 medical specialties and subspecialties and conducts over 750
clinical research studies. Ochsner Health System is proud to be a
tobacco-free environment. For more information, please visit
ochsner.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About CN
CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) is a true backbone of the economy,
transporting more than C$250 billion
worth of goods annually for a wide range of sectors, ranging from
resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods,
across a rail network spanning Canada and mid-America. CN, along with its
operating railway subsidiaries -serves the cities and ports of
Vancouver; Prince Rupert, B.C.; Montreal; Halifax; New
Orleans; and Mobile,
Ala.; and the metropolitan areas of Toronto; Edmonton; Winnipeg; Calgary; Memphis; Detroit; Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis.; and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North
America.
SOURCE CN