“We are able to give the most advanced quality personalized medical care and support to our patients and their families everyday. Then we are lucky enough to get to watch them grow-up.”
Peri Kamalakar, MD - Medical Director Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel, M.C.
About The Valerie Fund
Our Mission
The Valerie Fund's mission is to provide support for the comprehensive health care of children with cancer and blood disorders.
Our Beginning
The Valerie Fund is a not-for-profit organization established in 1976 in memory of nine-year-old Valerie Goldstein by her parents, Ed and Sue.
Our Impact
Thanks to the thousands of caring contributors and volunteers, today there are seven Valerie Fund Children's Centers for Cancer and Blood Disorders located in major hospitals in the tri-state area, providing caring and comprehensive health care to more than 5,000 children and their families each year.
Our approach is as unique and fundamental as our heritage: we firmly believe that disease in a child is best fought when the entire family is armed and supported to resist it. This means bringing state-of-the-art treatment centers close to the home, providing counseling and child development activities, making a summer camp experience that creates a one week miracle for children with cancer, and thousands of other things large and small that collectively make a difference.
The Valerie Fund Children's Centers comprise the largest network of healthcare facilities for children with cancer and blood disorders in New Jersey, and one of the largest in the nation. We host over 35,000 patient visits each year and, thanks to modern medicine and truly excellent staff care, cure over 70% of children in treatment.
It's an impact we're proud of, but are absolutely committed to improve.