Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Of The Piedmont Triad Inc

The rmhcpt family support services program provides assistance, education, and referral service necessary to promote the well-being of the whole family. The program helps families adjust to their child's illness by offering services that enrich parenting and coping skills. Support services are offered through daily visits with families at the hospital by the family support manager and volunteers, informal support groups, relaxation and stress management sessions, recreational activities for siblings, family member birthdays, holiday celebrations, pet therapy and bingo. Educational resources include one-on-one training, and parenting workshops. A family resource library with books, videos and computer is available to do research. Transportation to medical appointments and medical facilities, and assistance with access to community resources is available. We had 54 recurring family support services volunteers providing 310 volunteer hours.

Rmhcpt operates three ronald mcdonald family rooms. One is located on the sixth floor of atrium health wake forest baptist brenner children's hospital, one on the third floor of novant health forsyth medical center, and one on the sixth floor of moses h. Cone memorial hospital. The family rooms offer the day services of the ronald mcdonald house within the walls of the hospital. Comfortable seating areas, a kitchen stocked with complimentary drinks and snacks, and computers with internet access are among the amenities provided. The family rooms are open to any family with a pediatric patient receiving treatment at the hospital. Our 135 volunteers gave 6,993 hours to staff our family rooms monday through sunday. The family rooms welcomed 9,772 unique visitors for 17,024 visits.

Rmhcpt offers a hospitality cart/personal care kit program to serve: (1) parents that are reluctant to leave their child's bedside and/or (2)mothers-to-be that are receiving antepartum care at hospital prior to birth of a child with medical challenges and (3) families receiving services at a hospital/medical facility too small to support a ronald mcdonald family room or even the services of a hospitality cart. Our eight hospitality carts operating at atrium health wake forest baptist brenner children's hospital (two), atrium health wake forest baptist downtown health plaza (one), novant health forsyth medical center (one), novant health thomasville medical center (one), novant health waughtown pediatrics clinic (one), cone health m.h. Cone memorial hospital (one) and cone health tim & carolynn rice center (one) are complemented by the personal care kit programs operating at high point medical center and randolph health. Our 58 hospitality cart/personal care kit volunteers giving 3,721 hours of service joined staff in serving 45,369 individuals with items from our hospitality carts and/or distribution of persoanl care kits.