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Spring Harbor Hospital
Receives $1 Million Gift to Establish Glickman
Family Center for Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry
 (February 14,
2007) The Spring Harbor Hospital Board of Trustees
has announced the establishment of the Glickman Family Center for
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Spring Harbor
Hospital
. Made possible through
a $1 million gift from Judith
and Albert Glickman of Cape Elizabeth,
the Center includes the hospital’s first endowed medical
chair and an annual youth psychiatry symposium.
The donation is
the largest ever received by Spring
Harbor. It furthers the hospital’s commitment
to deliver the most supportive, innovative mental health
services to children and families in Maine.
The gift establishes an endowed
chair for the newly named Glickman Family Center for
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Spring Harbor
Hospital . The chair will guide the
development of what is already the most comprehensive
array of treatment, physician-training
, and research programs in
youth psychiatry north of Boston. The position
also will provide leadership to the nation’s most
promising research in preventing the onset of serious
mental illness in youth at risk of schizophrenia
(the Portland Identification and Early Referral
Program); Maine’s only inpatient
treatment program for youth with both
developmental disorders and mental illness; and the
state’s only gender-specific hospital services
for young people
with mental illness and co-occurring (psychiatric and
substance) disorders
.
The Glickman family’s donation to
Spring Harbor also establishes an annual lecture series
named for Girard
E. Robinson, MD
, who is the
chief of psychiatry at both Spring Harbor and Maine
Medical Center. The Girard E. Robinson, MD,
Symposium will be the region’s most authoritative on the
practice
of child and adolescent psychiatry,
drawing top professionals from both the
Glickman Family Center for Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry at Spring Harbor Hospital and other
national centers of excellence in youth psychiatry.
The gift not only recognizes the
work of Dr. Robinson and Spring Harbor, but it
is also consistent with the family’s longstanding
interest in the fields of medicine and mental health.
Mr.
Glickman is former chairman of
the board of governors of Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles and
has been active on nonprofit boards and in
philanthropic endeavors throughout Maine for many years.
Dr. Robinson says he believes
the gift will “foster the
growth of Spring Harbor’s youth treatment
services while simultaneously establishing an enduring
legacy that will make the Glickman name synonymous
with psychiatric excellence in Northern New England.”
Spring Harbor CEO Dennis P. King
calls the Glickman family’s contribution “an incredible
vote of support for our vision of improving the mental
health of youth throughout Maine and beyond. We
are blessed
and grateful to have the
confidence and friendship of the Glickmans.
Their generosity spells wonderful things for
the future of psychiatric care, research, and physician-training
here in Maine and throughout the nation.”
The $1 million gift to Spring
Harbor was made from the Albert Brenner Glickman Family
Fund at the Maine Community Foundation
. The fund has benefited the Glickman
family’s Maine-based philanthropic activities for many years.
With several outpatient sites in
Portland and a
newly constructed treatment center
off
Exit 46 of the Maine Turnpike, Spring Harbor is southern
Maine’s preferred nonprofit provider of youth
psychiatric treatment, serving thousands of
children and their families from
across the region each year. Youth
mental health programs include some that
can be found nowhere else in Maine and
very rarely elsewhere in Northern New England:
For
more information
: Gail Wilkerson, Chief of
Planning and Development, 207-761-2292
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