positive focus Spring 2010
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Serving Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Tioga & Tompkins Counties
STAP’s 2008 Legacy Award recipient, Dr. Barbara Chaffee, retired from full time practice at Binghamton Internal Medicine on January 1, 2010.
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o honor and recognize over two decades of Dr. Chaffee’s valued service to our community, STAP is proud to support the formation of The Barbara H. Chaffee, MD, MPH Educational Fund – To Nurture & Support Health Care Professionals Caring for People with HIV/AIDS. The fund’s mission is to enable dedicated HIV care professionals who currently reside in the Greater Binghamton Area to continue their education in the field of HIV/AIDS and follow in Dr. Chaffee’s footsteps well into the 21st century. Annual grant recipients will not only include the employees of and resident physicians & medical students in training at United Health Services, the Clinical Campus of the Upstate Medical Center at Binghamton and the Broome County Health Department, but also employees of the Southern Tier AIDS Program! Our agency’s financial support to a “forever” endowment
of this type in our community will help insure that our clients will have nothing less than the best HIV care for decades to come. The fund is the brainchild of Binghamton Internal Medicine HIV Team nurses Kate Dodge and Michele Rader, who then in tandem with the HIV clinic’s Consumer Advisory Board, contacted Diane Brown, Executive Director of The Community Foundation for South Central New York, to take this wonderful idea and turn it into a reality. The fund’s planning board is working to raise $50,000 this year through community donations so that it can begin making grant distributions in 2011. Support at all levels is appreciated. A Founders’ Circle has been established as incentive to make a $1000 minimum donation, which can be pledged in installment payments for up to two years. For more information on how you can easily contribute, please call The Community Foundation at 607-7726773. You can also find the Fund on Facebook.
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