Your Donations at Work
Children’s Hospital Foundation supports the care provided by Children’s Hospital of Richmond by funding a variety of initiatives, including construction projects, program development and physician recruitment. Recent hospital expansions include constructing a new pediatric emergency room, opening the Bon Air Therapy Center, and increasing the size of the Petersburg Therapy Center by more than 1,300-square-feet—all of which improve the hospital’s ability to care for children with the latest technology and in settings close to home.
In addition to construction projects, the Foundation supported the operations of the Recreation Therapy Department, a coordinated care program that brings games, activities and outings to the children that reside in the hospital’s long-term care unit. The program is a unique component of the care that children receive at Children’s Hospital of Richmond, and it is designed to improve physical abilities, reinforce social skills and provide an important opportunity for the children to have more typical childhood experiences.
On top of the direct benefit of improving care, facility and program development helps Children’s Hospital of Richmond with its ongoing commitment to recruit pediatric specialists and sub-specialists to our region. Over the course of just the past few months, the hospital welcomed new specialists in the Divisions of Adolescent Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Hematology and Oncology, Endocrinology, and General Pediatrics. The value that local pediatric specialists and sub-specialists bring to a community is immeasurable.
Recent Successes
Recently, the Foundation has supported a variety of services at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, including:
- $1.2 million to support the Department of Pediatric Surgery, which has one of the most accomplished general and thoracic robotic surgical programs on the East Coast
- $677,250 to support the Center for Craniofacial Care’s five-year strategic plan, allowing the center to expand locations and services
- $604,000 to revitalize the Division of Pediatric Nephrology by recruiting multiple physicians and a complete team to treat children with kidney disease or other diagnoses that affect kidney function
- $500,000 to support construction of a pediatric Perioperative Surgery Center
- $483,000 pledged to support the Fetal Cardiology Program, which provides comprehensive assessment and care of fetal cardiac disease
Other recent projects include:
- Opening the new Bon Air Therapy Center and expanding the Petersburg Therapy Center into 1,337-square-feet of new space, adding small treatment rooms, a sensory motor room, extra gym space and additional staff and office areas.
- Supporting the operations of the Recreation Therapy Department, which is a coordinated care program whose goal is to improve physical abilities, reinforce social skills and facilitate a return to community life for the children in Children’s Hospital of Richmond’s long-term care unit.
- Funding the expansion of Children’s Hospital of Richmond’s Long-Term Care Unit and providing necessary equipment, such as ventilators, for inpatients.
- Supporting annual outreach programs such as Health and Safety Days and the Children’s Hospital of Richmond Dental Outreach Program in partnership with donors like Food Lion and Kohl’s Department Stores.
- Renovating Children’s Park, the playground at Children’s Hospital of Richmond’s Brook Road Campus, to create a healing environment that is safe, accessible to children with disabilities, and facilitates therapeutic play.
