Friday, December 18, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley: Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org or (757) 668-9049
Dominion Energy Donates $250,000 to CHKD
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – Dominion
Energy has donated $250,000 to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters to support
the new mental health hospital being constructed to address the mental health
crisis in youth.
Dominion
Energy is a longtime supporter of community improvements. The company’s
generous donation is a testament to the value Dominion Energy places on the
children and families of Hampton Roads and the entire commonwealth.
“We’re honored to support the construction of this
much-needed facility,” said Bonita Billingsley Harris, regional policy director
at Dominion Energy. “The new hospital will offer critical support for children
and families in our community for years to come.”
When the $224 million building opens in 2022, it
will provide a full spectrum of mental health care for children, providing both
inpatient care and a robust outpatient care program.
The 60-bed
mental health facility will bring together aspects of the best pediatric
psychiatric facilities in the country, including inpatient rooms with sleeping
accommodations for a parent, a rooftop recreation area where hospitalized
children can get exercise and fresh air, and therapeutic rooms for art and
music therapy.
The 14-story facility is expected to ease a statewide
shortage of psychiatric beds for children, and will also provide a “partial
hospitalization” program that provides care to children who will spend most of
the day at the hospital, but still reside at home.
The CHKD mental health
hospital will employ 415 doctors, nurses, therapists, and other mental health
professionals who will treat children across the state and beyond.
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About Dominion Energy
More than 7 million customers in 16
states energize their homes and businesses with electricity or natural gas
from Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), headquartered in Richmond, Va. The company
is committed to sustainable, reliable, affordable and safe energy and to
achieving net zero carbon dioxide and methane emissions from its power
generation and gas infrastructure operations by 2050. Please visit to learn more.
About CHKD
CHKD
is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical
and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD
Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices,
multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices
throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story mental health hospital and
outpatient center on its campus to address the mental health crisis facing our
youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s campus in Norfolk is scheduled to
open in 2022. Learn more at CHKD.org.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley: Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org or (757) 668-9049
19th Annual Radiothon Raises More Than $240,000 for CHKD
NORFOLK, Va. – 94.9 The Point’s annual Radiothon raised more
than $240,000 for CHKD during a three-day campaign, the first in 19 years to be
broadcast during a pandemic.
Rather than the usual live broadcast from CHKD’s
lobby, The Point’s morning show hosts Mike Powers and Woo Woo aired inspirational
interviews with patients and CHKD professionals from the radio station’s
Virginia Beach studio to reduce risk of COVID-19 exposure to the children and
others.
Since its beginning 19 years ago, 94.9 The Point
Radiothon has raised more than $5 million to purchase equipment, fund research,
support patient care programs, and expand our mental health program.
Many thanks to this year’s Radiothon sponsors:
Stihl, Langley Federal Credit Union, GEICO Cares,
Southern Virginia Ford Dealers, Kroger, Cavalier
Ford Greenbrier, The CHAS Foundation, and Precision Measurements.
The community’s outpouring of support of CHKD through
the Radiothon is a testament to your trust in our team of doctors, nurses,
social workers, child life specialists, and many others dedicated to providing
the best care to children of all ages.
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CHKD
is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical
and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD
Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices,
multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices
throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story mental health hospital and
outpatient center on its campus to address the mental health crisis facing our
youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s campus in Norfolk is scheduled to
open in 2022. Learn more at CHKD.org.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley - (757) 668-9049 or Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org
CHKD Accepting Holiday Donations to Online Sites During Pandemic
The hospital will not be accepting in-person gifts this year to keep children safe from COVID-19
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – CHKD has always appreciated the generosity of the community toward our patients during the holidays. This year, because of the coronavirus pandemic, CHKD is altering its donation guidelines for the holiday season, and providing online donation options.
We will not be accepting in-person donations to reduce exposure to COVID-19, but we have ways people can safely contribute toys and other items to CHKD through websites.
Online purchases made through Walmart Registry for Good and Amazon Smile Charity Wish List will enhance the excitement and spirit of the season for our patients, while keeping them as safe as possible.
To shop at the Walmart Registry for Good, visit Walmart.com/RegistryForGood and look for CHKD’s child life approved list. You can also purchase gifts through Amazon Smile Charity Wish List by logging into your Amazon Smile account and designating Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters as your charity of choice.
Please be advised that all gifts purchased online come to us anonymously. Therefore, we encourage you to send us your name and order details by email to Gifts@CHKD.org, so we can acknowledge your thoughtfulness. Walmart or Amazon gift cards are also a great gift for families and can be sent to us by mail to this address: CHKD Philanthropy Office, 601 Children’s Lane, Norfolk, Virginia, 23507. Cash donations can be accepted by check to this address or made online at CHKD.org/Donate.
In addition, you can also help win Mattel and Fisher-Price toys for CHKD patients by voting for us during the annual Spread Joy with Toys campaign organized by the Children’s Hospital Association. From November 18 through December 2, you can nominate CHKD as your favorite children’s hospital for a chance for CHKD patients to receive free toys.
Thanks to you, we can make the holidays special for our children, even in the middle of a pandemic.
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CHKD is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices, multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story mental health hospital and outpatient center on its campus to address the mental health crisis facing our youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s campus in Norfolk is scheduled to open in 2022.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley: Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org or (757) 668-9049
James M. Cox Communications Donates $100,000 to CHKD
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – The
James M. Cox Communications has donated $100,000 to Children’s Hospital of The
King’s Daughters to help the hospital system cope with expenses related to its response
to COVID-19 while continuing to improve services to the region’s children. The
foundation is affiliated with Cox Enterprises, the parent company of Cox
Communications and Cox Automotive, and provides support in communities where
its businesses operate.
CHKD and Cox Communications have a longstanding
relationship in the Hampton Roads region, most recently through a Cox Charities
grant on behalf of Cox Virginia employees.
Since the pandemic emerged locally in March, CHKD has
expanded its testing capabilities, developed screening and monitoring protocols,
searched for supplies of personal protective equipment, and treated children
with COVID-19 and the associated condition, multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Training
and education also increased in response to the pandemic.
Additionally, the health system created an
environment for safe delivery of treatments to children facing health crises,
such as traumatic injuries, cancer and premature birth, along with ongoing
chronic conditions. Telehealth platforms have been expanded to give families
more treatment options.
CHKD also has continued facility improvements,
including a renovation of its neonatal intensive care unit and construction of
a $224 million mental health center to treat youth in crisis, a population that
is expected to grow in these times of isolation and uncertainty.
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About the James M. Cox Foundation
The James M. Cox Foundation is named in honor of Cox Enterprises' founder and
provides funding for capital campaigns and special projects in communities
where the company operates. James M. Cox was Ohio's first three-term governor
and the 1920 Democratic nominee for president of the United States. The
Foundation concentrates its community support in several areas including:
conservation and environment; early childhood education; empowering families
and individuals for success; and health.
About Cox Communications
Cox
Communications is committed to creating meaningful moments of human connection
through broadband applications and services. The largest private telecom
company in America, we proudly serve six million homes and businesses across 18
states. We're dedicated to empowering others to build a better future and
celebrate diverse products, people, suppliers, communities and the characteristics
that make each one unique. Cox Communications is the largest division of Cox
Enterprises, a family-owned business founded in1898 by Governor James M. Cox.
About CHKD
CHKD
is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical
and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD
Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices,
multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices
throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story mental health hospital and
outpatient center on its campus to address the mental health crisis facing our
youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s campus in Norfolk is scheduled to
open in 2022. Learn more at CHKD.org.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley: Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org or (757) 668-9049
CHKD Welcomes Infectious Disease Specialist
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – CHKD is pleased to welcome Dr.
Parvathi Kumar to our team of infectious disease specialists.
Dr. Kumar received her medical degree from Kasturba
Medical College, Mangalore, in India. She did her residency at Sinai Hospital
of Baltimore, and completed a fellowship in pediatric infectious disease at
CHKD.
Dr. Kumar trained in India and brings experience in
infectious diseases frequently seen in tropical countries and developing
nations.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kumar.

Dr. Parvathi Kumar
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CHKD
is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical
and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD
Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices,
multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices
throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story mental health hospital and
outpatient center on its campus to address the mental health crisis facing our
youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s campus in Norfolk is scheduled to
open in 2022. Learn more at CHKD.org.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley: Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org or (757) 668-9049
CHKD Collaborates with CATS To Refurbish Adaptive Devices for Children
NORFOLK, Va. – Whether it’s a device that helps children communicate
with friends, or a stroller that makes it easier to play with family on the
beach, adaptive devices help children with disabilities live life to the
fullest.
CHKD announced today a new collaboration with Children’s
Assistive Technology Service, an organization that refurbishes adaptive devices
and other medical equipment for children with disabilities. Sometimes the
child’s family doesn’t have insurance, or, more commonly, the insurance
companies don’t consider the device medically necessary. Some can cost
thousands of dollars, so CATS cleans and refurbishes gently used devices and
either gives or loans them to children for free.
CHKD has supported the organization since it
started operating in Hampton Roads in 2016. The hospital system recently
entered an agreement with the organization to create a partnership in which
CHKD picks up equipment for CATS and provides space in CHKD’s adaptive seating
clinic for the devices to be cleaned and refurbished.
Beth Beach, an occupational therapist at CHKD,
helped start the CATS operation in Hampton Roads. Roanoke and Richmond also
have CATS programs. “Technology has come such a long way in designing equipment
that can help children with disabilities do so many more activities, but they
can be expensive,” said Beach, who has been an occupational therapist for more
than 30 years.
For instance, Macie Leiphart, a 7-year-old Virginia
Beach girl with cerebral palsy, has most of her medical equipment, such as a
wheelchair, covered by insurance. But when her family filed for insurance to
cover a special device that helps her stand up, the company said it wasn’t
medically necessary. The $3,000 cost was steep, especially since she can
outgrow the device fairly quickly.
CATS was able to provide a device when she 3, and
another one last year when she outgrew the first one. She can stand at the
counter to do arts and crafts, dye Easter eggs, and help her mom cook. “It
really expanded the different activities she can do,” said her mother, Laura
Leiphart. “She also uses it at school, so she can stand up in class like the
other kids.”
Chesapeake 5-year-old Christian Farley also had his
horizons expanded by CATS. Christian has
cerebral palsy and epilepsy and is also blind. He loves the water, so his
family applied for a beach stroller through CATS so he could go to the beach. “I’ve
lived in Chesapeake my whole life, so I grew up going to the beach,” says his
mother, Jessica Farley. “We really wanted to make memories like that for Christian,
too, since the water is his absolute favorite thing in the world.”
Macie and Christian are just a few in a growing
number of local children who have been helped by the organization. In 2019, 452
items were provided to 432 children throughout Hampton Roads.
More information about the program can be found at
the CATS website.

Left: Macie Leiphart, 7,
enjoys a higher view in the family kitchen in Virginia Beach, thanks to an
adaptive device that helps her stand.
Right: Five-year-old Christian Farley of Chesapeake enjoys
beach time with his family in an adaptive beach stroller he received
from CATS.
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CHKD
is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical
and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD
Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices,
multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices
throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story
mental health hospital and outpatient center on its campus to address the
mental health crisis facing our youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s
campus in Norfolk is scheduled to open in 2022. Learn more at CHKD.org.
Children’s Assistive
Technology Service (CATS) provides for the re-use of pediatric rehabilitation
equipment and assistive technology devices in Virginia. CATS serves as a no-cost
resource for children with disabilities who need adaptive equipment and whose
families have limited resources.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Contact: Elizabeth Earley: Elizabeth.Earley@CHKD.org or (757) 668-9049
CHKD Welcomes Specialist in Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – CHKD is pleased to welcome Dr. Carlos Sendon to our pulmonary and sleep medicine practice.
Dr. Sendon received his medical degree from the University of San Martin De Porres in Lima, Peru, and did his residency in pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. He completed a pediatric pulmonary fellowship at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and a sleep medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Dr. Sendon’s clinical interests include asthma, chronic cough, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, recurrent pneumonia, primary ciliary dyskinesia, and technology-dependent and sleep-breathing disorders.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Sendon.

Dr. Carlos Sendon
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CHKD
is the only freestanding children’s hospital in Virginia and serves the medical
and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern
Shore of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit CHKD
Health System operates primary care pediatric practices, surgical practices,
multi-service health centers, urgent care centers, and satellite offices
throughout its service region. In 2019, CHKD broke ground on a 60-bed, 14-story mental health hospital and
outpatient center on its campus to address the mental health crisis facing our
youth. The new tower being built on CHKD’s campus in Norfolk is scheduled to
open in 2022. Learn more at CHKD.org.
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