Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 9:21 am
From left are Ramona Kennedy, CHMC Auxiliary Liaison, Brandon Bowline, CHMC Chief Operating Officer, Diane Dailey, CHMC Auxiliary President, Randy Fipps, CHMC Administrator of System Integration and Behavioral Health, Darlene Liscum, CHMC Auxiliary Vice President, & Richard Duvall, CHMC Chief Executive Officer. Photo submitted by CHMC.
OGDENSBURG Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center Foundation received a $100,000 donation from the CHMC Auxiliary for the construction of the Children’s Mental Health Unit at CHMC.
“Inpatient psychiatry services for children and adolescents is a growing need in the North Country.
At Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, when we see a child or adolescent in the Emergency Department who requires more than outpatient care, we are forced to wait for an open space in one of the few hospitals in the state who offer inpatient children’s mental health,” said Randy Fipps CHMC Administrator of System Integ