This Giving Tuesday, Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital publicly launched the largest fundraising campaign in the hospital’s nearly 100-year history.
Hope Heal Grow: The Centennial Campaign for MWPH seeks to raise $15 million by December 31, 2022.
Hope Heal Grow has raised 90% of the campaign goal – $13,500,000 – since it launched in 2018.
“For nearly 100 years, we’ve provided family-focused, integrated care to help children recover from injury and illness, getting them back home, back to school, and back to their lives,” said Sheldon Stein, MWPH president and CEO, in a statement.
The campaign has three key priorities: the expansion and renovation of the Rosenberg Outpatient Center, the design and construction of the Ability Center, and investment in the MWPH Children’s Fund.
The expansion of the Rosenberg Outpatient Center was completed in June, allowing for 16,900 additional patient visits each year and extending the clinical space from 14,000 to 20,600 square feet.
The center provides specialized care for children in the Baltimore region who struggle with diseases and disorders such as diabetes, respiratory illnesses, obesity, and developmental and behavioral disorders.
Behavioral care is one of the biggest areas of persistent need in the community, according to the hospital’s latest annual report.
The expansion of the center resulted in seven new therapy spaces and seven additional pediatric psychologists.
The construction of the Ability Center will begin in the spring of 2022.
The center will treat pediatric and adolescent patients who have sustained multiple traumas, have congenital or acquired disabilities, or need intensive post-surgical rehabilitation.
The center will also include a new rehabilitation gym for outpatient clinics and a rehabilitation day program.
Investments in the Children’s Fund will go towards programs, equipment, research, and innovation.
“From our early days of treating rheumatic fever and polio to the current need of supporting patients through the long-term effects of COVID-19, MWPH has evolved to meet the needs of the children in our community,” said Stein.
“The Hope Heal Grow Centennial Campaign will enable us to continue our history of adapting to meet whatever challenges come our way,” he said.
The launch was supported by gifts from both long-standing and new supporters, including including the Jack & Mae Rosenberg Charitable Trust, Roslyn and Leonard Stoler, the Eliasberg Family Foundation, the Joseph & Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, Lawrence C. Pakula, MD/Louis H. Gross Foundation, and the Bunting Family Foundation, Inc.
