Children's Miracle NetworkEach year, the Children's Miracle Network (CMN) broadcasts its television fundraiser on the first weekend following Memorial Day. Two hundred stations in the United States and Canada, including WITN-7 in Greenville, New Bern, Washington, show the program. University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina's Children's Hospital is one of 170 hospitals that benefit from this broadcast.As a fundraising program of the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation, all money raised by the Children's Miracle Network program stays right here in eastern North Carolina to support Children's Hospital and help to provide much needed programs, equipment and services for children in the 29 counties it serves. Our Children's Hospital treats children with all types of illnesses and injuries, including cancer, heart, muscular, birth defects, cerebral palsy, and traumatic injuries. The Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation approves all Children's Hospital allocations from donated funds. In addition, CMN funds have been used to support capital projects, such as 50-bed state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit, to purchase special equipment for Children's Hospital, to provide a broad range of educational programs and to supplement pediatric programs at regional hospitals. CMN has also supported programs that promote injury prevention, child advocacy and the management of pediatric asthma. Each summer, CMN helps send children with chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, sickle cell and other blood disorders to special summer camps. Click to give a donation. |