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About Children's Miracle Network
Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat all children, regardless of affliction or the family's ability to pay.
Annually, KU Medical Center Pediatrics and Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics care for over 400,000 children, treating every disease and condition imaginable, and providing over $13 million in free care.
How are Donations Used?
Money raised for CMN in the Greater Kansas City area stays in Kansas City.
Proceeds from CMN gifts and contributions are utilized to provide an array of services, equipment and treatment for children in need in the community. At KU Medical Center, CMN funds have been designated for the pediatric oncology services provided. In addition, funds are used for ongoing research and patient education programs.
At Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, CMN funds recently provided assistance in expanding the hospital’s intensive care nursery from 48 to 61 inpatient beds. These funds helped to provide new equipment as well as additional medical care professionals needed to treat the newborn babies. Funding in 2006 has been designated to support the diabetes services provided at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics.
Programs Funded by CMN
- Research programs seeking treatments and cures for cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and other childhood diseases
- Echocardiography machine to diagnose heart defects
- Portable IV pumps for outpatient chemotherapy
- Equipping an intensive care vehicle used to transport high risk and acutely ill infants
- Cardiac Ultrasound Machine
- Diagnostic equipment for sexual abuse clinic
- Child Life Program which strives to promote optimum development of children and their families, to maintain normal living patterns and to minimize psychological trauma
- Construction of parent rooms adjacent to a neonatal intensive care unit
- Computer equipment and school supplies for inpatient classrooms
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