Decades ago, families tried to sleep in their child’s room, in the waiting area in the hospital or in their cars to be near their hospitalized child. Opening the doors to our original Ronald McDonald House® in 1987 lessened the emotional, physical and financial hardships these families faced, fulfilling our mission of “keeping families with critically ill children close to each other and providing the care and resources they need, when they need it most.”
Our House is built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on the health of their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest. We believe that when a child is hospitalized the love and support of family is as powerful as the strongest medicine prescribed.
When families arrive at our House, they often have very little besides hope and prayers. Since 1987 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado has been providing family centered care and keeping families together. No one has ever been turned away because of a lack of funds. Share a Night helps to support a family’s stay at our House.
