Our Mission
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charlottesville exists to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
The Ronald McDonald House Charities Charlottesville provides a temporary home-away-from-home for families whose children are receiving treatment for a serious illness or injury in Charlottesville. In an effort to lessen the burden, reduce stress, keep the family intact, and enhance the quality of life for these families, we provide affordable housing in a caring home-like atmosphere. Annually, we host between 800 and 1,000 family stays. These stays could be an overnight visit or stretch to last many months. Our families travel from across the state, across the county and some travel from overseas to receive medical treatment for their child.
How We Fulfill Our Mission:
- Our House provides rooms for families 365 days of the year.
- We serve the entire family with space for up to four family members in most rooms.
- We often provide a meal a day for every resident generously donated and prepared by community group volunteers; we have other food supplies available for other meals.
- UVA assists us by providing shuttle transportation to and from the hospital for residents.
- We offer a host of services and activities to make our families’ stay as enjoyable as possible.
- We connect families with other people who care and understand what they’re going through.
- We partner with community and corporate sponsors to fund the portion of each night’s stay not covered by the family’s contribution.
RMHC Charlottesville sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. By treating all people fairly without regard to income or ability to pay, race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, religion, political affiliation, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, disability or handicap, housing status, marital status, veteran status or any other group or class protected by applicable laws and regulations we can continue to meet our purpose of caring for families with children who are ill or injured.
