History
In 1966 a group of Long Islanders joined together to build “the finest children’s medical facility the hand and heart of man can devise.”
For seventeen years they worked together, advancing the cause for a children’s hospital, winning the legislative authorization, and raising the funds necessary for the hospital to be built. In 1983 CMF’s dream came to fruition with the opening of Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park-New York’s first children’s hospital.
CMF continues to be the largest contributor to this nationally top-ranked children's hospital, now part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.
