{"id":173703,"date":"2021-06-04T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=173703"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:47:53","slug":"5-decades-of-good-deeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/06\/5-decades-of-good-deeds\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Decades of Good Deeds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Auxiliary membership past and present deserves our most profound thanks for a foundational effort so very well done!\u201d — Dr. Peter Deckers<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whether it\u2019s the Creative Child Center, the art collection, a patient and family education center in the Outpatient Pavilion, web cams for premature infants\u2019 isolettes, or even an endowed faculty chair, the UConn Health Auxiliary\u2019s presence will live on at UConn Health long after it disbands this summer.<\/p>\n

Since its inception in 1969, the Auxiliary, which earned the nickname \u201cThe Good Deed People,\u201d has contributed more than a conservatively estimated $9 million to UConn Health, including decades of scholarships and student awards, the establishment of the UConn Health Auxiliary Patient and Family Education Center<\/a>, and perhaps most notably, the raising of $900,000 to fund an endowed chair, the Joseph M. Healy Jr. Memorial Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics.<\/p>\n