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.

We're building your new children's hospital

Artist rendering of the new children's hospital

Introducing the Wonder Tower

This new facility will replace the existing pediatric inpatient unit with private rooms, new operating rooms, imaging capacity, emergency services and family amenities — all dedicated to children and their families.

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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:

Lauren’s story

"In that moment, days after receiving a devastating cancer diagnosis, my husband and I realized that while this is the scariest and probably the most challenging time of our lives, our job was not only to get the best care for Lauren but to enable a childhood here at the hospital and throughout her treatment." - Marisa Cherry, Lauren's mom.

Read Lauren's story

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.

Shailyn

Meet Shailyn: A patient who is fighting a rare, progressive disease. Shailyn has been making friends at CHoR for nearly three years. The brave, sassy, smart and social 8-year-old was diagnosed with MPS VI in November 2017.

Mikey

When Mikey was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy five years ago, Michael began frantically searching the web. How could he help his child? Where did they need to go? He found the answers to some of these tough questions at CHoR.

Bethany

In May, Jennifer Powell loaded up, buckled her daughter Bethany in the car and set the GPS for Richmond – a 16-hour drive from her home in Arkansas. She’d never been to Virginia, but was on a mission to get the care her daughter needed.

Making an impact

In a single year, more than 60,000 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.

265,778 outpatient visits

20,569 emergency room visits

9,237 inpatient admissions

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