United Hospital Fund Special Tributes

The United Hospital Fund periodically recognizes the achievements of individuals or organizations who have had a significant impact on health care in New York City and who have earned the respect and admiration of the Fund and the broader health care community.

 

Richard Ravitch (2011)

for his impressive and long-standing service to New York and its health care community
 

Sisters of Charity of New York (2010)
for more than 200 years of service to the people of New York through a comprehensive network of social services, education, advocacy, and health care institutions

 

Lee H. Perlman (2009)

for his years of service to the hospital community, and his volunteer leadership to improve the health and lives of New Yorkers

 

The New York Community Trust (2008)

for its philanthropic leadership on pressing health care and social issues, and its special partnership with the Fund

 

Barbara P. Gimbel (2007)

for sixty years of volunteer leadership in the New York health care community, and her inspired contributions as a board member of the Fund

 

Howard Smith (2006)

for more than three decades of volunteer leadership and service to the Fund, its beneficiary hospitals, and the people of New York

 

Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan (2005)

for his more than four decades of service to the New York health care and social services communities

 

Greater New York Hospital Association (2003)

for its century of efforts to preserve, promote, and strengthen health care services in the metropolitan area

 

Martha Farish Gerry (2001)

for her more than fifty years of service and for setting a powerful example of social responsibility and wise stewardship

 

Herbert Singer (1996)

for providing exemplary voluntary leadership to New York City’s health care community for more than forty years

 

Suzanne Pincus (1995)

for her outstanding contributions as a volunteer leader and her tireless work on behalf of women and children

 

David Rogers, MD (1994)

for his extraordinary volunteer leadership on behalf of individuals with HIV/AIDS

 

Bruce C. Vladeck (1993)

for his extremely productive decade-long leadership as president of the United Hospital Fund

 

David Minkin (1991)

for his many dedicated years of service to the United Hospital Fund