Free Pancakes at IHOP on March 3 to Support Albany Med Children's Hospital

ALBANY, N.Y., March 2, 2015 — For the 10th consecutive year, Capital District IHOP restaurants will offer guests a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes onTuesday, March 3, National Pancake Day. This family-friendly tradition raises funds in support of the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, for the care it provides thousands of families annually.

For every short stack of buttermilk pancakes served on National Pancake Day between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., IHOP guests are invited to make a voluntary donation to the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med.  Local families who benefited from the children’s hospital will be on hand to share their stories. Participating IHOPs include:

IHOP – Colonie

16 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12205
Children’s hospital patient: Keaton McGivney (will arrive at 11:00 a.m.)

IHOP – Clifton Park611 Plank Road, Clifton Park, NY 12065
Children’s hospital patient: Joey Slichko (will arrive at 9:00 a.m.)

Since beginning its National Pancake Day celebration in 2006, IHOP restaurants have raised almost $16 million to support charities in the communities in which they operate.  That includes providing life-saving treatment, programs and medical equipment for pediatric patients at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

For more information, to find a local IHOP location or to make an online donation to The Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center, visit www.IHOPpancakeday.com.

The Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center is a 125-bed facility devoted exclusively to the medical needs of infants, children and adolescents, and is the referral center for all seriously ill and injured children from 25 counties in upstate New York and western New England. It is staffed by 140 physicians trained in 34 subspecialties and more than 400 pediatric nurses, therapists, social workers and child-life specialists.

Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York’s only academic health sciences center, is one of the largest private employers in the Capital Region. It incorporates the 734-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital, which offers the widest range of medical and surgical services in the region, and the Albany Medical College, which trains the next generation of doctors, scientists and other healthcare professionals, and also includes a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physicians practice with more than 450 doctors. Albany Medical Center works with dozens of community partners to improve the region’s health and quality of life. For more information:www.amc.edu or www.facebook.com/albanymedicalcenter.