The Ronald McDonald House has been around for a while. The Ronald McDonald House Foundation was founded in 1974. The first house is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A lot of people probably don’t know that former Football player Fred Hill. Jim Murray also founded the Ronald McDonald house. RMCH has built and still is building houses all around the United States. RMCH is home to families with sick children up to 18 years old. Ronald McDonald houses are all run differently.
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RMCH was evaluated about how they treat pregnant women (Dexter, Klein, Clark, Ross, Veille 1). They were evaluated on how they treat pregnant women because the journal of Perinatology wanted to see their methods. A business helped update the technology at RMCH (Thorsberg 1). Old software was updated so families can connect with who they left at home (Thorsberg 1). They created and defined user roles(Thorsberg 1).
The goal at RMCH is to keep families together. Some families can spend upto a year in a Ronald McDonald House (RMCH-What We Do 1). They want to keep families together so the child won’t be terrified (RMCH-What We Do 1). RMCH believes that when you keep a family together that “the love will be better than the medicine prescribed” (RMCH-What We Do 1). They say that when the families are there they can communicate with their child’s medical team (RMCH-What We Do