Children's Miracle Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children by raising funds and awareness for 170 children's hospitals, including Sacred Heart Children's Hospital in Pensacola.
Children's Miracle Network's pledge is to put children first in all it does and keep 100 percent of donations in the community where they were raised. Children's Miracle Network has grown dramatically since its founding in 1983, when its first televised fund raiser aired from a small private studio and raised $4.7 million for hospitals.
In just 18 years Children's Miracle Network has grown into an international organization actively providing better health care for millions of children through its 170 affiliated hospitals. In addition to producing the largest television fund raiser in the world, Children's Miracle Network organizes thousands of special events and promotions each year through its dedicated corporate sponsors and media partners.
At Sacred Heart, we also sponsor Radiothon, a three-day radio event that features on-air interviews with children, families, nurses and other hospital staff. The 2009 Radiothon with Your Country 102.7 WXBM raised over $68,000 for Children's Miracle Network at Sacred Heart Children's Hospital.
This tremendous year-round effort is helping to save and improve the lives of 14 million children with cancer, heart defects, diabetes, AIDS, muscular dystrophy, and accident trauma, to name a few.
Local Children's Miracle Network activities raised more than $600,000 last year for Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. These funds are used to provide medical care to our young patients, and to buy much needed equipment such as ventilators, Intensive Care Unit monitors, and transport isolettes for the specially equipped Infant Transport Ambulance maintained by Children's Hospital.
For more information on the Children's Miracle Network,
call the Sacred Heart Foundation at 850-416-4660
or visit the Children's Miracle Network web site at www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org.
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Children's Miracle Network was founded in 1983.
The hallmark of Children's Miracle Network is that 100 percent of every dollar raised in a community stays there to help children served by participating hospitals in the local area.
Children's Miracle Network hospitals treat all children regardless of the family's ability to pay.
Each year Children's Miracle Network hospitals provide more than $2.5 billion in charitable care; these non-profit children's hospitals depend on community support.
Since 1983 Children's Miracle Network has raised nearly $1.8 billion, most of which is donated a dollar at a time by individuals throughout the United States and Canada.
A substantial portion of that funds also comes from major national sponsors such as Wal-Mart.
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