Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center recently announced that the hospital has been chosen as the 2013 recipient of the Mario Lemieux Foundation’s Austin’s Playroom Project.
The Austin’s Playroom Project was started by Nathalie Lemieux, wife of hockey great Mario Lemieux, following the birth of their son Austin who was born prematurely and spent 71 days in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Pittsburgh.
On the Mario Lemieux Foundation website Nathalie Lemieux writes, “While we were caring for Austin, there was no place to provide a comfortable calming environment and engage his two sisters, Lauren and Stephanie, who were both toddlers at the time. It was on my first Mother’s Day with Austin that Mario and I realized a need for playrooms and began to craft our plan to someday raise the necessary funds to do so in western Pennsylvania and beyond.”
From L-R: Terry Trimeloni, Nurse Manager, RICN; April Behory, Director of Woman & Child Services; Claudia Rager, Vice President, Patient Care Services; Nancy Abrahams, CHF Board Member; Nathalie Lemieux; Susan Mann, President, Conemaugh Health Foundation; Amanda Artim, CHF Board Member, Stacy Roberts, Marketing & Social Media Coordinator; Tiffany Pugh, Nurse Manager, Obstetrics
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center’s new playroom will be the 29th playroom established by the Mario Lemieux Foundation. “We are so excited and so honored to have been chosen,” says Susan Mann, President of the Conemaugh Health Foundation. “We are extremely grateful to Nathalie Lemieux and to all of the donors who support the Austin’s Playroom project.”
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