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.
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.
It’s amazing how much a simple thing like giving kids a toy to entertain them while they’re in the hospital can do for their health. It’s all about helping our patients just be kids again.
Frances Clemente, MS, CCLS - Social Worker; Coordinator, Sala Institute "Connect the Dots" Program
My time working with the Sala Institute really changed me. I want do to for other kids and families what the people from the Sala Institute did for me.
Sara Damour - Sala Institute Youth Advisory Council Member
I’m amazed by how much change the Sala Institute has made possible, and how much is still in store. We’re at the beginning of what the Sala Institute can be.
Howard Ginsberg, MD - Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Clinical Leadership, Sala Institute