When families are confined to their suites for months at a time, caregiver well-being becomes not optional—but essential. For caregivers, RMH-NY’s Blavatnik Family Foundation Wellness Center continues to provide:

 On January 28th, National Pediatrician Day, healthcare leaders, caregivers, and advocates pause to celebrate the clinicians who protect and guide the health of children across the world. Read and learn why pediatric primary care for your children is more important than even.

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.

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.

"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

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.

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 30^th, 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.

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.