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As coronavirus has spread across the nation, the Nationwide Children’s Hospital community has responded.

You wanted to help so we are launching The Joining Hands Fund: Helping Kids and Families Face Coronavirus. This fund allows each of us to join hands, pitch in, and help in whatever manner we can. Everyone has a role to play in guiding our community through this challenge. The Joining Hands Fund will harness the strengths of people helping other people.

Connect with Amanda Dove on partnership opportunities with your brand or organization on this and other initiatives with Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

When you contribute to The Joining Hands Fund, you help vital services such as the following:

Staff Support

Medical professionals are on the front lines of this pandemic. They can’t shelter in place. They come to work every day to care for children, even as they juggle childcare options for their own family. We are increasing services for staff wellness, stress management, and assistance when needed. Obviously, the need for personal protective equipment and other medical items has been well documented in the media and we face similar challenges.

Your support in this area will augment our Employee Catastrophic Relief Fund that helps our most important asset: our determined employees.

Research

We are one of the largest freestanding pediatric research institutions in the country. Our doctors are actively searching for vaccines, treatment plans, and prevention strategies to combat coronavirus.

Your support in this area will help researchers such as our world-renowned infectious disease experts who focus on pathogenesis and treatment of respiratory infections and the application of genomics strategies to better deal with infectious agents.

Telehealth

Scientific principles to slow the transmission of the coronavirus make it challenging for children to receive care for other conditions. We have greatly increased our delivery of telehealth services, ensuring that children continue to receive world class care for conditions like mental health and others without having to leave their home. All outpatient services and certain inpatient services are doing consultations via telehealth.

Your support will enable us to expand telehealth opportunities to more families and children. We delivered more than 600 telehealth visits in just a couple of days after the Governor of Ohio issued stay-at-home orders and the demand will increase exponentially.

Direct Services

Children are the most vulnerable in society to upheavals such as economic challenges. Housing, continuity of care, education, safety, and many more components of their lives are threatened during this difficult time. The Center for Family Safety and Healing and the Big Lots Behavioral Health Program all expect to see dramatic increases in need for their services.

Your support in this area will help us help families affected by the coronavirus and social upheaval.