At Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California, we express our mission through our programs, which include seven Ronald McDonald Houses in Bakersfield, Inland Empire, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Orange County, Pasadena and Westside of Los Angeles. We operate two Ronald McDonald Family Rooms at CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange and CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital. We are developing a new Family Room in Ventura, at the Ventura County Medical Center, and a new House near the UCLA/Mattel Children’s Hospital on the Westside Los Angeles. We are one of the only Ronald McDonald House Charities chapters across the world that operates a cost-free, medically-supervised Camp for children with cancer and their families, Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times.
OUR MISSION
To provide comfort, care and support to children and families in Southern California.
OUR VISION
A community where children and their families embrace life and healing with a sense of hope, enthusiasm, courage and joy.
OUR VALUES
Compassion, Integrity, Respect, Innovation and Transparency.
THE DIAZ FAMILY
Five years after Melissa and Israel Diaz adopted their son Salvador, he was diagnosed with several serious illnesses including Cerebral Palsy and Lennox–Gastaut syndrome, a difficult-to-treat form of child-onset epilepsy.
Salvador’s diagnosis required hospitalization at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital for up to two weeks every four months. While Salvador received care at the hospital, his parents and siblings, Dakota and Zamarah, would stay at the Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House.
Like others in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Orange, Pasadena, and one on the way in Long Beach, the Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House provides inexpensive, often free, temporary housing for families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals and medical centers.
“This House has been such a blessing to us,” says Melissa. “The care and sense of support we receive from the staff and the other families who are experiencing similar situations is overwhelming.”
With each visit, Melissa and Israel felt so much compassion from the Ronald McDonald House staff that they wanted to volunteer to help the cause. Along with members of their church, the Diaz family periodically prepares meals for the families currently staying at the Loma Linda Ronald McDonald House.
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