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Groundbreaking National Television Show Keeping Kids Healthy® Receives Two New York Emmy Awards

Children's Health Show Continues to Tackle Tough Issues Launches New Season and Reaches Nearly 60% of all US TV Households

New York City, NY (Wednesday, April 6, 2005) - Keeping Kids Healthy, a pioneering children's health television series, was awarded two Emmy Awards Sunday evening Aril 3rd at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 48th Annual New York Emmy Awards, which took place at The Waldorf Astoria's Grand Ballroom. The show won the awards for Health/Science Programming - Single Program or Special and Health/Science Programming - Series. Produced by Montefiore Medical Center in association with Thirteen/WNET New York and now in its third season of national syndication, Keeping Kids Healthy is a weekly television show about better parenting, disease prevention and about keeping kids safe.

"We're thrilled with this recognition, as it's not every day a hospital wins an Emmy, let alone two!," said Spencer Foreman, MD, president, Montefiore Medical Center. "Montefiore is a national leader in developing creative uses for new technologies that enable our world-class doctors, nurses and technicians to provide state-of-the-art care to our patients. Keeping Kids Healthy is an extension of this commitment, allowing us to share critical counsel and real-life healthcare guidance with parents and caregivers across the country," said Dr. Foreman. "We remain committed to the health of our community, and with our Keeping Kids Healthy TV show, we've just made the community we serve a little bit larger."

"Thirteen is proud of its long and fruitful history of partnering with leading New York-based institutions like Montefiore Medical Center," said Dr. William F. Baker, president of Thirteen/WNET New York. "Our collaboration with Montefiore on Keeping Kids Healthy represents the very best of what public television can do on the community level and throughout the nation. I'm very pleased to see an important series like this one, which has the potential to dramatically improve the lives of America's children, receive the recognition it so richly deserves, and Montefiore can take the credit for making it happen," Baker said.