NORFOLK, Va.
– Howard Hanna Children’s Free Care Fund has donated the first $100,000 of a five-year,
$500,000 donation to support a mental health initiative at Children’s Hospital
of The King’s Daughters.
The Howard
Hanna Children’s Free Care Fund partners with children’s hospitals across the
country, with regional Howard Hanna Real Estate offices raising donations for
their local hospital. Thanks to the fundraising efforts of Howard Hanna’s southeast
region, the organization presented CHKD with a check of over $100,000 early
this month, with more payments planned during the next four years.
The generous
donation will support CHKD’s transformative Children’s Pavilion, a 14-story
tower currently under construction on the same Norfolk campus as its main
hospital. The building will have 60 private inpatient beds for psychiatric
treatment that will begin opening later this year. Children’s Pavilion, located
on Gresham Drive, will also feature healing amenities like creative expression
spaces for music and art therapy, an indoor gym, and a rooftop recreation
center where hospitalized children can get exercise and fresh air.
The new
building will open to some services this spring, including a pediatric practice,
sports medicine, and outpatient mental health care. The goal is to provide an
environment that integrates access to mental health services into other routine
services in order to de-stigmatize the identification and treatment of psychiatric
conditions within the pediatric population. Inpatient services will begin later
in the year.
To learn
more about the mental health initiative, visit this Lighting the Way link.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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.
