Melissa Errico Performs at Calvary Hospital’s 29th Annual Awards Gala Tonight, 6/5

Calvary Hospital's 29th Annual Awards Gala takes place tonight, Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at The Pierre in New York City. The evening's proceeds will benefit Calvary Hospital.

Ed Gilligan, Vice Chairman, American Express Company will receive The Calvary Medal in recognition of his distinguished corporate and civic leadership and outstanding philanthropic commitment to the Calvary mission.

American Express Company; Louis J. Cappelli, Chairman, Sterling National Bank; Louise M. Parent & John P. Casaly; Evan R. Chesler, Esq., Presiding Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; Arthur B. Crozier, Chairman, Innisfree M&A; Vijay D'Silva, Director, McKinsey & Company; David P. DiCristofaro, Partner, KPMG LLP; Michael Esposito, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Thomas J. Fahey, Jr. M.D., Senior Vice President, Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Chairman of the Board, Calvary Hospital; Terence J. Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Governance Associates LLC; Steven J. Golub, Chairman of the Board, Calvary Fund; Charles J. Groppe, Esq., Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson, LLP; Carlos M. Hernandez, Managing Director, Global Head of Equities, J.P. Morgan, Investment Bank; Henry J. Humphreys; Eugene A. Ludwig, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Promontory Financial Group, LLC; Martha E. McGarry, Esq., Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; William A. McKenna, Jr., Chairman Emeritus, Ridgewood Savings Bank; Asheet Mehta, Leader, Americas Banking & Securities Practice, McKinsey & Company; Joseph J. Morrow, Chief Executive Officer, Morrow & Co., LLC; Eileen T. Nugent, Esq., Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Kathleen L. Rezza, Secretary, Catholic Institute of the Food Industry; Travel & Entertainment Coordinator, Krasdale Foods, Inc.; Liz Hilton Segel, Director, McKinsey & Company; Gerald C. Tobin, Esq., Chairman, Calvary Professional Advisors Council and Kendrick R. Wilson III, Vice Chairman, BlackRock are Dinner Co-Chairs.

Mary and William Buckley, Diahn W. and Thomas McGrath, and Kathleen and Stratford Wallace are Gala Co-Chairs. John A. Decina, AIA, Chief Executive Officer, Barr & Barr, Inc. and Dennis M. Schneider, President, Transervice Lease Corp. are Journal Co-Chairs.

The festivities for this black-tie gala start at 6:30 PM. Broadway's Melissa Errico will give a special performance and Master of Ceremonies is John R. Gambling, Host of WOR's The John Gambling Show. Support levels are as follows: Tables are available for $50,000, $25,000, $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 and individual tickets are available for $5,000, $2,500, $1,000 and $750.

From its inception in 1899, Calvary Hospital has been devoted to providing palliative care to adult patients in the advanced stages of cancer, addressing the symptoms of the disease, not its cure. Operated in connection with the Archdiocese of New York, Calvary is a voluntary, not-for-profit hospital, embodying a tradition of caring through its many programs and services. The cornerstone of Calvary's program of service is its philosophy of compassionate care to meet the emerging physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of both patients and families through the provision of acute inpatient, outpatient, home and hospice services (through Calvary@Home), wound care services and satellite services. Through the Palliative Care Institute the Hospital transmits to other health care professionals, through research and education, the knowledge and competence which it has developed in the care of the advanced cancer patient. The National Cancer Institute designated Calvary as the International Standard of Excellence for Palliative Care.