CMN dollars have helped to purchase essential equipment that saves kids' lives, like pediatric ambulances and transport isolettes that can safely carry even the smallest patients. CMN also funds equipment such as VECTA machines and AngelEye cameras, which help loved ones to stay connected to their babies in the NICU.
CMN helps to provide critical programming that helps to normalize the hospital experience for kids and families, such as Child Life, Art and Music Therapy, and the Hummingbird Program. CMN also supports community programs like Trauma and Injury Prevention, community gardens, and medical camps.
Every year, 40% of CMN's funding is allocated toward innovative pediatric research. These funds are critical at each point along the research journey, fueling ideas and discoveries to real-world solutions that have a huge impact on the lives of children - such as the 3D heart printer technology that helped to save Henry's life.
To help create a lifelong impact for patients and families, CMN established four endowments focused on pediatric research, pediatric cardiology, patient assistance, and medical student equity. Learn more about CMN's endowments.
Having epilepsy is scary enough. Going to the hospital for a scan shouldn’t have to be. That’s why CMN helps to fund programs like Child Life at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital – to make the hospital a little more normal for kids like Logan.
Logan is a spirited five-year-old who suffers from epilepsy. As part of his care plan, Logan visited the Children’s Hospital for a sedated MRI of his brain. Child Life specialist Erin was ready and waiting for him as soon as Logan arrived. She helped to keep him calm in the hospital environment with distracting toys. Then, she helped to prepare him for the sedated MRI by showing him the anesthesia mask he would be wearing, adding flavored chapstick and stickers to make it less scary, and even practicing putting a matching mask on his stuffed monkey!
Logan’s dad, Justin, said that having attention from the Child Life specialist made his scan much easier, and “made the entire experience joyful.”
