$8.35 million raised in “Make Room for Kids” Campaign
for Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
 

HARTFORD – With $8.35 million raised to date Connecticut Children’s Medical Center President and CEO Larry M. Gold announces that the Make Room for Kids capital fundraising campaign is at the halfway point and the public fundraising phase is underway.

Gold said funds raised to date in the $16.7 million Make Room for Kids campaign are already transforming CCMC. “Construction projects funded by Make Room for Kids are enhancing our capacity to care for critically ill and traumatically injured children thanks to a 50% expansion of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. We now have exciting new diagnostic capability with a new CT Scanner and a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine in Radiology.”

“As a not-for-profit organization it is only through this kind of generous fundraising support that we are able to upgrade our facilities and equipment to help make kids better,” Gold said.

Six new beds in the PICU ease a chronic shortage of beds for children needing intensive care, Gold said. The project also funded new equipment, new Family Sleep Rooms, a Chapel and a Family Lounge for the PICU.

Still on the drawing boards awaiting approval from the state Office of Health Care Access are plans for a 25% expansion of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to add six more beds. Next to come pending state approval is a proposed $7 million expansion for a new Day Surgery Center, new operating rooms for Minimally Invasive Surgery and doubling the size of pre-operative and post anesthesia recovery units. “This will be our largest and most visible expansion yet, and will build out onto the second floor roof on the Washington Street side of the building,” Gold explained.

For more information about supporting the Make Room for Kids campaign, please contact Debby Hyde, Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving, CCMC Foundation, 860-240-7639.