Ronald McDonald House Charities Kansas City (RMHC-KC)

Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Kansas City, Inc. (rmhc-kc) operates three (3) Ronald Mcdonald houses in Kansas City, providing temporary lodging for families of seriously ill children who must leave their own communities to seek medical care for their child. The organization's 1st Ronald Mcdonald House opened in 1981 near the university of Kansas medical center at 1901 olathe blvd. (41st & state line road) in Kansas City, Kansas. The 11 bedroom facility served 581 families in the final full year of operations (2005) visiting from throughout the midwest. This House closed in march of 2006 when the new Ronald Mcdonald House in longfellow park opened for service. The organization's 2nd Ronald Mcdonald House, bernstein, opened in 1988 near children's mercy hospital at 2501 cherry street in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a 19-bedroom facility. The 3rd Ronald Mcdonald House, longfellow, opened in 2006. This House is a 41-bedroom facility located across the street from the cherry street House at 2502 cherry street. The 4th Ronald Mcdonald House, wylie, opened in 2015. This House is a 20-bedroom facility located across the street from the longfellow House at 2525 cherry street. Our houses serve families of children receiving treatment at any local referring hospitals or medical treatment providers including - children's mercy hospital, university of Kansas hospital, st. luke's hospital, shawnee mission medical center, the rehabilitation institute, and overland park regional hospital. In 2022, Ronald Mcdonald House Charities served 3,089 families at our three (3) houses and 496 families through our hotel partnership. While originally implemented during the pandemic of 2020, throughout 2022, these hotel partnerships continued to provide lodging to families for whom there was no room at one of the houses. The average stay for families in our houses was 7 nights and 4 nights in the hotels. The most common patient diagnosis included neonatal and perinatal, cardiology and hematology, and oncology. Most of these families reside in Kansas (56%) and Missouri (34%). Families of seriously ill children age 21 or younger are eligible to stay at the Kansas City Ronald Mcdonald houses with priority being given to those families who reside outside of Kansas City by at least 35 miles. Ronald Mcdonald House Charities does not charge for our services and no family is ever turned away based on income level or ability to pay.

The organization also operates two (2) Ronald Mcdonald family rooms, an extension program of Ronald Mcdonald House Charities providing respite in a home-like environment inside two (2) local hospitals. The family room inside children's mercy hospital (cmh) opened in 1997 and provides seven (7) overnight rooms for families whose children are receiving care in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. In 2022 the family room saw 12,248 visitors and provided 1,139 overnight stays in the sleeping rooms. All in-patient, intensive care unit families at children's mercy hospital are eligible to use the family room during the day and can also request one of the seven (7) overnight sleeping rooms. The family room inside overland park regional medical center (opr) opened in february 2022 and provides four (4) overnight rooms for families whose children are receiving care in the intensive care units. In 2022 there were 4,118 visits to the family room and 342 overnight stays in the four (4) sleeping rooms. Ronald Mcdonald House Charities - Kansas City (rmhc-kc) would not be able to carry out its' mission without the support of volunteers. In 2022 rmhc-kc rapidly began revamping on-site volunteer programming, helping to assist families with daily needs. By january of 2022, most volunteer activities, including our traditional meal program and core volunteer programming had resumed. In 2022 rmhc-kc welcomed 570 total community groups such as schools, businesses and churches back to provide a lunch or dinner meal for 50 guests (28,500 total individual meals served). The meal program alone hosted 5,196 meal volunteers in 2022. The core volunteer program utilized 74 individual volunteers with a total of 1,896 hours as a campus or family room volunteer in 2022. Our fundraising efforts (red friday, trent green golf classic, spark of hope gala, etc.) Utlized 604 event volunteers to help with setup, cleanup and various event day tasks last year. 241 communitiy members provided various care and supply kits for families. Lastly, rmhc-kc had approximately 150 active committee and board members who served in leadership roles in 2022. In total rmhc-kc utlized 6,265 volunteers in 2022 t0 carry out its' mission.