Proceeds will help provide care to the region’s youngest patients
Vermont Business Magazine On March 2, hundreds of UVM students, faculty, and staff danced the night away to raise funds and awareness for the UVM Children’s Hospital. RALLYTHON, the University of Vermont’s Miracle Network Dance Marathon, raised $106,532 by the end of the evening. The RALLYTHON’s student leadership team will present a check to UVM Children’s Hospital Chief of Pediatrics Lewis First, MD, on April 16.
Now in its ninth year, RALLYTHON has raised a cumulative total of $904,797 for The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital. The event is part of a movement of more than 100 Colleges and Universities across the country who come together to raise money for their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital.
Funds raised by RALLYTHON support special programs and services, life-saving equipment, education, and research. Most notably, donations from RALLYTHON support UVM Children’s Hospital’s Child Life Program – a program specially tailored to help children and their families feel a sense of “normalcy” in an otherwise scary time.
Locally, RALLYTHON is planned and executed by a committee of 20 students from across the UVM campus.
“The passion these students bring to this event year over year is really remarkable and we are so lucky to have their support,” said Wendy Finn, Community Fundraising Specialist for the UVM Medical Center Foundation. “We are even more excited for next year now as they will likely reach the milestone of having raised $1 million in their ten years.”
About The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital
From the maternity unit to the emergency department and from our Children’s Specialty Center to our pediatric primary care clinics, The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital offers a welcoming child and family-friendly atmosphere with high-quality pediatric care. In partnership with The University of Vermont Medical Center, The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, The University of Vermont Children’s Hospital delivers expert care grounded in the latest research to residents throughout Vermont and northern New York. It is fully accredited by the Children’s Hospital Association. For more information, please visit www.uvmhealth.org/childrens or contact us at 802-847-0000.
Source: 3.14.2024. BURLINGTON, Vt. - The University of Vermont Health Network UVMHealth.org
