Fighting Childhood Cancer - GRAACC

The GRAACC - Grupo de Apoio ao Adolescente e à Criança com Câncer (Support Group for Children and Adolescents with Cancer) - is a nonprofit brazilian institution, established to ensure that children and adolescents with the right to access all the chances of cure with quality of life in the most advanced scientific standard . The hospital conducts monthly GRAACC about 2,500 calls between chemotherapy sessions, consultations, outpatient procedures, surgery, bone marrow transplants and others. In addition to diagnosing and treating childhood cancer, GRAACC works in the development of teaching and research.

The GRAACC was born in 1991, thanks to initiative of Dr. Sergio Petrilli, head of Oncology Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, engineer volunteer Jacinto Antonio Guidolin and Mrs. Lea Della Casa Mingione, volunteer at the Cancer Hospital.

The first step was to transfer the Division of Pediatric Oncology, Hospital Sao Paulo for a house, which became known as the "house". Younger patients were seen at that location, within the concept of day hospital where they received medical attention and care and returned to their homes.

Based on university partnership / company / community GRAACC awakened in companies and institutions with a broad vision social confidence and interest in participating in the construction of the Pediatric Oncology Institute - IOP, the hospital's GRAACC.

In May 1998, that dream becomes reality. It built a modern hospital nine floors and two basements, at 4,200 square meters, specializing in the care of children and adolescents with cancer.

Today, the hospital is managed and administered by GRAACC and medical care, teaching and research are conducted in partnership with the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP / EPM).

Annually, the GRAACC is audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Since 2008, volunteering to GRAACC is certified with ISO 9001.

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Beneficent Society Israeli Brazilian - Hospital Albert Einstein

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Social Responsibility Institute:

The “Instituto Israelita de Responsabilidade Social Albert Einstein” mission is to provide served communities with social justice and solidarity through responsible social actions based on citizenship principles and ethics.
Instituto Israelita de Responsabilidade Social Albert Einstein believes that citizenship should be practiced by everyone. Therefore it supports a number of initiatives that engage hundreds of professionals and volunteers:

- Community Activities: Virtual tour: Paraisópolis Community Program

Virtual tour Albert Einstein Nursing Home

- Educational Activities: Focused on employing and training doctors, nurses, health agents,public health managers and non-governmental organizations.
- Philanthropy: Includes the donation of hospital equipment and material, scholarship concessions and free high-cost exams and treatments for patients referred by public hospitals.
- Volunteering: A group of 360 volunteers spread across 47 areas carry out an important social role in the Hospital, at Paraisópolis Community and at Residencial Israelita Albert Einstein (Nursing Home).
- Collaborations with the Public Health Sector: Path chosen by SBIBAE to multiply medical excellence and collaborate with the National Healthcare System to offer with high quality healthcare and best practices in health care management to the general population.

Learn more about the Society Beneficent Albert Einstein Jewish-Brazilian