Your Impact
What we do
Children's Hospital Foundation works to maximize philanthropic impact in children's health at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, driving excellence in patient care, education and research. We are dedicated to raising and stewarding philanthropic resources that will enable CHoR to become a top, nationally-ranked children's hospital.
CHoR has 15 sites throughout the region, including two primary campuses, one in downtown Richmond and one in the city’s historic Northside neighborhood, as well as additional therapy and specialty centers ranging south to Petersburg and north to Fredericksburg and Stafford.
Your impact makes a difference – join us at an event, read a patient story, make a donation or leave a lasting gift!
Your children's hospital is nationally ranked!
Your support helps us advance our programs. We're celebrating 10 years of being ranked among the best children's hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Whether they're coming from around the corner or across the country, thousands of families turn to CHoR each year for quality, safe and innovative care for needs ranging from common to complex.
Jasper's legacy
Nate and Jamala Arland share how CHoR made a difference for their family before and after the loss of their son, Jasper.
Areas of Focus
Since 2010, donor support has propelled Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU to build new programs, recruit outstanding clinicians and enhance the care available to children in our region. Explore some of the areas that have grown thanks to donors like you:
Child Health Research Institute
Thanks to community support, our research institute is collaborative and multidisciplinary – spanning across all of our specialties. From discovering how to stem the rising tide of obesity to developing new aerosol treatments for cystic fibrosis, we're finding new ways to improve the lives of kids in our community and beyond.
Improving the lives of children
The children featured on this website represent just a small fraction of the children that come to Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU each year. We hope their stories will help demonstrate how your support allows Children's Hospital Foundation to provide the funding necessary to develop the clinical, research and teaching programs that will benefit our community's children now and into the future.
Asher
Two-year-old Asher loves watching toddler educational videos with YouTube personality Ms. Rachel. Born with a hole in his heart, Asher spent most of the first four months of his life at CHoR, initially in the NICU and then in the PICU. Asher, who also has Down syndrome, is followed by multiple CHoR specialties including cardiology, surgery, sleep medicine, gastroenterology and ophthalmology. His care is coordinated through the Complex Care Clinic.
Allie
From sprinting to singing, Allie continues to beat the odds, 15 years after her premature birth. Before she was a year old, her family relocated to Richmond so Allie could be closer to CHoR’s specialists. She received physical, occupational and speech therapy through Virginia’s early intervention program and then transitioned her therapy to CHoR. Through those services, Allie, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a toddler, learned to walk, first with a walker and then leg braces.
Jonah
“I want every kid in the world to know about my doctors and my hospital. I think the Children’s Hospital is good because they do good things for kids and fun things,” shared seven-year-old Jonah.
Jonah was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) affecting his muscles and motor skills, but with leg braces he walks independently and doesn’t let anything slow him down.
Making an impact
In a single year, more than 80,000 children receive care at CHoR, and Children's Hospital Foundation helps ensure that these children continue to have world class pediatric health care close to home, right here in Central Virginia.
Children and families come to us from Virginia, across the U.S., and often from out of the country. We cover nearly every pediatric health care need under the sun - from casts to cancer - from simple to complex - we do everything in our power to give kids a shot at a healthy future.