What We Do

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Offers Three Core Programs

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Ronald McDonald House Central Ohio operates a Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, and two Ronald McDonald Family Rooms. Click below to learn more about each program!

Fund a Program

Provide the Comfort of Home to Families for Years to Come

Columbus, this is your House.

You provide the meals for our guest families, you volunteer, and you donate generously. Local McDonald’s restaurants, their customers, and Nationwide Children’s Hospital generously provide 6 percent of our budget, but generous individuals, corporations and foundations (like you!) fund the rest. We do not receive any city, state or federal grant funds, and we are not a United Way agency.

Help families in their time of need by funding one of our three core programs.

Hero of the
House

Support our mission of Keeping families close® to their hospitalized children by becoming a Hero of the House and helping fund the services we provide.

Hero of the Care Mobile

Help support our mission of providing medical services to pediatric patients in underserved areas becoming a Hero of the Care Mobile.

Hero of the Family Room

Provide everything from a warm shower to a safe space to relax for families at two different Columbus hospitals by becoming a Hero of the Family Room.
For information on naming opportunities that support family stays, please contact Kate Siefert, Senior Development Director, at (614) 227-3777 or Kate.Siefert@RMHC-CentralOhio.org.

How to Request a Room

Stays at the Columbus Ronald McDonald House are by referrals from hospital staff only. The House staff will then contact you as soon as a room is available. Rooms are provided on a first-come-first-serve basis to families with hospitalized children under the age of 18, but priority is given to families of patients in critical care units. To request a room, please talk to your child’s hospital staff for a referral.