Chai Lifeline Chop Hospital Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

thank you Dr Al Scher I cannot tell you how excited and happy I am uh to be here today for the official ribon cutting of the kosher Pantry we conceived of this space many years ago and it owes its existence uh to a number of people who saw this need and help make it a reality I need to acknowledge and thank uh senior vice president Michelle Lloyd for her tireless tireless and well Relentless uh advocacy for this project without her it could not have come to completion I would also like to thank Sandy Klein and Barry G orano and nutrition services who help diligently to make this uh to help complete this space but this kosher pantry is not about us it is about the huge number of families who come to our Hospital who need to eat while they spend many hours and sometimes many days in our institution and who only eat kosher foods because of the importance of this religious tradition to their fam it is for these families that this at least 5year labor of love uh is dedicated while this space was a long time in coming it's opening today is yet another example of Chop's commitment to patient and family centered care this project has taught me more than I ever thought I would know about our Orthodox Jewish Community uh we set up a shabas system so that families could get into and out of the south tower on the Sabbath and we now know how to check to make sure that the are Ro is up on Friday afternoon and the fire retardant Suka on the third floor of the seashore house what an amazing thing I think for us to have uh done but I still have so much more to learn and so much more to discover and share with my colleagues while we have accomplished much with our cultural Effectiveness initiative we still have so much more to do and it it is with great pride then uh that I here today to help with this ribbon company this R ribbon cutting thank you very much um it is my great pleasure now to uh introduce Rabbi Fred who is the director of programs and services for Kai Lifeline uh Rabbi freed has been my uh resource for all things Orthodox Jewish and without him I think I could not be standing here talking to you about suas and our Rose so please let's invite people come on into the room take a look as well as the food that's in the food court congratulations congratulations I must tell you that we at k your your care and concern and partnership is what it's all about patient care is really Pati so maybe we'll have to take