There’s a Hospital Bed for the Child. Where’s the Bed for the Mom?
When a child gets a life-altering diagnosis, the hospital has a bed waiting. For the parent who drove through the night from Dodge City or Joplin, or got put on a plane with an hour’s notice, there is no bed anywhere in the healthcare system. That is the gap Ronald McDonald House fills, and in Kansas City it still isn’t big enough: last year it had to turn families away nearly 800 times.
Tami Greenberg, CEO of Ronald McDonald House Kansas City, is a social worker who never expected to run a political campaign. Then the only way to grow meant buying the city park the house sat on, which took a…
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