By Rick Shepherd This month, American Ninja Warrior contestant Michelle Warnky Buurma returned to the show with her little champion, Grace, cheering her on. At the same Ohio gym where she
As we wrap up the Mental Health Awareness Month of May, we spotlight John Kennedy, a board member here at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio. John recently sat down with us to talk about his family’s experience with addiction and mental illness
A Licking County, Ohio mom brought her teenage son to the Big Lot’s Behavioral Health Pavilion at Nationwide Children’s Hospital after he began withdrawing from life, as she described it.
He was a young Star Wars fan who was given a Star Wars puzzle by a House manager seven years ago. Now a teenager, he returned with his mom to stay at the House for hospital appointments and happened to be staying at the House during a special observance of Star Wars Day. He and his mom show their gratitude, which only grew from the day he got that puzzle.
May is Mental Health Month and this week is Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. RMHC of Central Ohio brought the first Ronald McDonald Family Room to the country’s first pediatric behavioral health hospital. One of our board members recently created a fund to support behavioral health initiatives supported by RMHC of Central Ohio. We spoke with another board member who experienced the RMFR at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion about why such a space is so necessary.
Betsy brought her son to Nationwide Children’s Hospital after his mental health concerns couldn’t be addressed by healthcare professionals in her local area. She found the help her son needed at NCH, and found our Ronald McDonald Family Room a perfect place to take a break while her son was getting the care he needed. She was also relieved to find out that she could stay at the Ronald McDonald House knowing her son’s inpatient care would take weeks.
During a recent visit to our Ronald McDonald House by Ohio State University football players, which was arranged by the Cohesion Foundation, safety Malik Hartford had an opportunity to meet
By Rick Shepherd, Communications Manager, RMHC of Central Ohio Some may not be aware that we are required by Nationwide Children’s Hospital to have staff members, not volunteers, welcome families
By Rev. Judy Noble, Pastor, St. Lukes Presbyterian Church, Titusville, FL Our daughter, Ashlee, and her husband, Jacob, lived in Florida and were visiting Ohio the last weekend of May
NBC News senior investigative correspondent, Cynthia McFadden, and her crew were the first TV news cameras allowed inside the new psychiatric tower at Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently. McFadden aired a
