HOCKEY’S GRAND GOAL

From left, at the renovated Infusion Center: Celeste A. Oranchak, Vice President, Foundation and HOCKEY’S Development; Allison Blitzer, Chairperson, Devils Care Foundation; Ken Daneyko, Devils alumnus; Mary Ellen Clyne, PhD, President and CEO, GRAND GOAL RWJBarnabas Health and Clara Maass Medical Center, together with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New CMMC; Nessrin Leonida, RN, Oncology Nurse Navigator. Above, a new infusion chair.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS FUNDRAISING BRINGS Jersey—the state’s only NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center—provide

CARE AND COMFORT TO CANCER PATIENTS AT CLARA MAASS MEDICAL CENTER. close-to-home access to the latest treatment options. To learn more, call 844.CANCERNJ or visit make holiday visits to hospitals throughout the RWJBarnabas Hockey players are known for their fi erce fi ghts on the ice, but their fi nest moments delighted that the funds raised were used to allow for additional privacy and comfort to Health system,” Daneyko explains. “During the height of the COVID-19 crisis, we stepped in with a signifi cant www.rwjbh.org/beatcancer. come when they’re fi ghting for a good patients and their families in a calm and donation to their Emergency Response cause. “Giving is at the core of who we supportive environment,” Blitzer says. Fund. We host staff and patients in are as an organization—our players, Th e renovated Infusion Center recently our suites at games, recognizing them coaches and entire staff ,” says Allison debuted six privacy bays, each equipped publicly. And our practice rink, the Blitzer, Chairperson of the Devils Care with state-of-the-art infusion chairs as RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House, Foundation. well as other essentials for the comfort of hosts thousands of youth hockey players

One of the greatest of these causes is patients and their caregivers. each year and brings the game of hockey Hockey Fights Cancer, an initiative of the Funds raised next season through to children who wouldn’t otherwise be National Hockey League. For the past Hockey Fights Cancer will continue to be exposed to it.” seven years, the New Jersey Devils have directed to CMMC’s Infusion Center. “We Devils players and foundation donated the proceeds from this event are very grateful to the New Jersey Devils members say that the good they do is its to an RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) for their ongoing support, which enhances own reward. “What brings so much pride cancer facility as part of the partnership the care we provide for our patients,” says to the entire organization is the impact we between the team and RWJBH. Mary Ellen Clyne, PhD, President and have on patients in RWJBarnabas Health’s

Th e Devils’ Hockey Fights Cancer CEO of CMMC. care—the happiness on their faces when event raises money through game-used they see the players or participate during a stick and jersey auctions, puck and T-shirt GIVING AND GETT ING game,” Daneyko says. sales and a raffl e. “Each year, we partner Hockey Fights Cancer is one of many “Th ere is no better experience with a team at RWJBarnabas Health eff orts that are part of the RWJBH-Devils than seeing with your own eyes the to understand their needs and how our partnership. “We join RWJBarnabas impact of the funds raised,” Blitzer says. donation from the event would best be Health as community partners, not just “Talking to the staff about much-needed suited to help,” Blitzer explains. corporate partners,” says Ken Daneyko, improvements to give the best quality of

In 2019, Hockey Fights Cancer a former Devil who won three Stanley care to their patients was a memorable donated a signifi cant amount to the Cup championships with the team and is moment for me. You hear it in their renovation of the Infusion Center at Clara known to fans as “Mr. Devil.” voices and see it in their faces, and that Maass Medical Center (CMMC). “We’re “For example, our players and staff means everything.”

To learn more about RWJBarnabas Health corporate partnerships, visit www.rwjbh.org/corporatepartners. To learn more about donating to the Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation, visit www.claragiving.org.