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Making Families Torn by Illness Whole Again
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In the outpatient primary care clinic, where doctors treat patients up to age 11, mothers and their children constitute a "whole" unit. The little one gets treatment, but so does mom, if she needs it.
In the hospital's new wing, which opened a week ago, "whole" families are as much a focus as the medicine. Most patient rooms are spacious and private, giving parents more room during what can be the most terrifying moments of their lives.
Bottom line: No matter how difficult the circumstances are for patients and their mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, Children's spares no detail in making everyone involved feel welcome. And parents get the message.
"It was never depressing -- not depressing at all," said Prajakta Hate of Greenbelt, whose 8-year-old son, Mukul, spent two weeks at the hospital when he underwent surgery for a brain tumor last winter.
It's hard to put a price tag on all that Children's does. But needless to say, it does not come cheap. For decades, the community reached by Children's has been giving back to the hospital through The Washington Post's fundraising campaign.
With today's kickoff, we hope to raise $500,000 by Jan. 18.
How to Help
To donate, make a check or money order payable to Children's Hospital and mail it to Washington Post Campaign, P.O. Box 17390, Baltimore, MD 21297-1390. That's the address for the post office box of our bank, Chevy Chase. All funds go to Children's Hospital in Washington.
To contribute by phone using Visa or MasterCard, call 202-334-5100 and follow the instructions.
Everyone who donates will receive a thank-you note, and all gifts are tax-deductible, as allowed by law. Sometimes groups donate or co-workers give to the Children's campaign instead of exchanging holiday gifts or cards. We'll be acknowledging such groups in this column.
If you have foreign currency you'd like to get rid of, mail it to Children's Hospital Campaign, 1150 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20071, and we'll get it to Asset Strategies International Inc. to convert it into U.S. funds.
Craig Wilton, general manager of US Express, will again be providing courier service to pick up group donations made by any office. If you need a pickup in the District, call 301-683-9009 and tell the operator that the account code is "ChildP."
Thank you.
