RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Richmond Kiwanis Basis helps younger sufferers really feel extra comfortable throughout their hospital keep by giving them a spot to play.
The Virginia Commonwealth College Well being System introduced a $50,000 donation from the nonprofit to help playrooms within the new 500,000-square-foot, under-construction, state-of-the-art, inpatient pediatric hospital on the Kids`s Hospital of Richmond which is about to open early 2023.
The playrooms will likely be discovered all through the 16-story hospital and are supposed to assist youngsters really feel protected and cozy whereas on the hospital and to keep up a way of regular dwelling life by way of play, in accordance with a press launch from VCU.
“We’re right here to help the youngsters in the neighborhood, particularly once they want us most,” mentioned Bruce Tyler, president of the Kiwanis Membership of Richmond, in a press release. “Kids in well being care environments want areas the place they are often youngsters. Taking part in, having enjoyable and utilizing their imaginations whereas they obtain care at CHoR.”
The Kiwanis Membership of Richmond focuses its fundraising and repair on initiatives that profit youngsters like a yearly vacation occasion on the Kids’s Hospital of Richmond’s Brook Highway Campus and supporting a household lounge adjoining to the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit. One other Kiwanis Membership of Richmond mission is offering correctly fitted bike helmets to second graders in Richmond Public Colleges.
This 12 months, Kiwanis Richmond awarded greater than $60,000 to quite a lot of Richmond-area nonprofits.
