WHAT: 13 Sailor’s competing for the Navy’s Sailor of the Year award will visit ill children at Sunrise Children’s Hospital before the competition.

WHO: Sunrise Children’s Hospital, 13 Navy Sailors

WHEN: Tuesday, January 26, 2010  10:00 am

WHERE: Sunrise Children’s Hospital

3186 South Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89109

(Cameras meet in Sunrise Children’s Hospital Lobby)

DETAILS: The Navy’s Sailor of the Year program was established to recognize one Sailor who is the best representative of dedicated professionals who serve as role models of professionalism and personal dedication. This year’s event, held January 27, 2010, at 6:00 pm at New York, New York, will determine the Sailor of the Year for Navy Region West, which includes 13 districts. The winner of this competition will then go on to compete nationally.

Media Contacts:
Sunrise Children’s Hospital: Ashlee Seymour, 702-279-8675
Navy: Bradley Sapp, 619-247-7226

Sunrise Health is the most technologically advanced hospital network in the central Southwest. Committed to providing the finest healthcare, Sunrise Health includes Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, MountainView Hospital, Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital, as well as outpatient diagnostic, imaging and surgical centers. Specialty services include a suite of the latest diagnostic and surgical technologies, The Nevada Neurosciences Institute, a designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Breast Center at Sunrise, the state’s most comprehensive Children’s Hospital and women’s healthcare services and Las Vegas’ first network of certified Stroke Centers.

Sunrise Children's Hospital
(702) 731-8000