Family Rooms Hospital Outreach Staff Spotlight

Where Art and Healing Meet and Have Smoothies

The Montefiore Family Room is also a place for creativity, expression, and emotional healing. RMH-NY hosts Paint & Sip events that transform the room into a temporary art studio.


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Looking for a Good Cause to Donate to in NYC?

RMH-NY does more than provide a place to stay. It builds an environment where healing includes the whole family — where parents, siblings, and young patients find comfort, community, and care. That’s the essence of family-centered care: supporting the family unit as a whole so children can thrive.


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Ronald McDonald House New York: Expanding Access to Healthcare, One Family at a Time

"When we think about the future of healthcare...we see a trend by hospitals to really focus care on community-based resources...Fundamentally, Ronald McDonald House New York is that home away from home."                      

                             -Dr. Ruth Browne, President & CEO, RMH-NY


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Fundraising Hospital Outreach volunteers

Running Toward Hope

At Ronald McDonald House New York, we witness how a diagnosis can completely alter a family's life overnight. For Christopher Jackson, this change arrived on an autumn day when school, soccer, and ordinary teenage plans were abruptly interrupted by an extraordinary test of endurance.


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Hospital Outreach News

Remembering Jimmy Murray and Ginger Hardage

The recent passing of Jimmy Murray and Ginger Hardage is a profound loss—not only for the RMHC family but for the millions of children and parents ...

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Community Health Hospital Outreach Navigation Services volunteers

Dr. Richard J. O'Reilly

Ronald McDonald House New York (RMH-NY) will proudly "Go Gold" in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month as we gather for the RMH-NY’s  Annual Gala at the stunning Cipriani Wall Street on September 30th, 2025. This year’s event brings a truly historic milestone: the presentation of the inaugural Medicine Gives Hope Award to a man whose life's work has changed the course of pediatric cancer care across the globe — Dr. Richard J. O’Reilly.


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Caregivers Family Rooms Hospital Outreach

Elmhurst Hospital Family Room Honors Our Hospital Heroes

March may be best known for its unpredictable weather, but at Ronald McDonald House New York, it’s a time of deep gratitude and recognition. As pa...

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Family Rooms Hospital Outreach

A Letter from a Mother in the NICU

When I got admitted for my pregnancy for the arrival of my daughter, my fiancé would often come visit the family room and then come tell me about the room. At first nothing mattered but the health of my baby, until that one day my fiancé took me to visit the family room. I never looked back.


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Education Hospital Outreach News

Lessons Learned: Strategic Expansion for Ronald McDonald House New York

by Ruth Browne, President and CEO. Cancer survival rates overall have improved in the United States for the past five decades. Forty years ago, when Ronald McDonald House-New York’s (RMH-NY) started out, only 15% of children using our services survived. Today 80% of children using our services now survive.


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