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Kikel Trust Honored by Akron Children's Hospital
POLAND, Ohio -- The Kikel Charitable Trust has received the 2012 "Champion for our Valley's Children" award from Akron Children's Hospital Mahoning Valley. The award was presented last night at the second annual "Champions for our Valley's Children" celebration at The Lake Club here.
Four individuals and organizations also were honored with the first annual Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley “Children’s Advocate Award.” Recipients include Easter Seals of Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties; Brian Forward, owner of Mahoning Valley Vacuum; Potential Development Program; and the R.O.C.c.K. Children’s Choir.
“In 2011, a total of 1,919 donors contributed $2,151,000 to support our local programs and services,” said JoAnn Stock, Akron Children’s director of development.
Since the opening of the Beeghly Campus in Boardman in 2008, Stock said, more than $5.3 million has been donated to support the mission of Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley.
The Kikel Charitable Trust and posthumously, the Kikel Sisters, Angela, Josephine and Jenny, were presented with the “Champion for our Valley’s Children” award. James H. Sisek, President and CEO of Farmers Trust, manager of the Kikel Charitable Trust, accepted the award. In March 2011, Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley was named as the residual beneficiary of one-half of the Kikel Charitable Trust, which was created upon the death of the last sister, Angela, in 1998. Each year, interest earned on the Trust will be distributed to the local hospital to support Mahoning Valley programs and services.
The initial distribution of $1,070,306 was received in August 2011 and has been used to expand and upgrade services in the radiology department at the Akron Children’s Beeghly Campus in Boardman, Stock said. Improvements include installing new equipment including an MRI with anesthesia capabilities, software upgrades and redesigning rooms and machinery to create a more efficient and child-friendly environment. “These changes will enable our Mahoning Valley patients to receive care closer to home, and at the same time allow for faster patient scan times with improved image quality,” said William H. Considine, president and CEO of Akron Children's Hospital.
Akron Children’s Hospital has been caring for children from Youngstown, Warren and surrounding communities for more than 50 years. Akron Children’s Beeghly Campus in Boardman is a 32-bed pediatric hospital.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.