Bring Health and Hope to Kids
Support OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital and help provide life-saving care so they can do what they do best: be kids.
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Your gift matters
OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is able to make a difference in the lives of so many kids because generous, passionate donors make a difference through the power of giving. Support from donors provides life-saving care and treatment to kids from across Oregon and beyond when they need it most.
Doernbecher offers the region’s broadest range of pediatric treatments – to more children in more places than any other hospital in Oregon or southwest Washington. Your support makes this life-saving care possible.
Your support helps children like Hazel
Hazel has PCDH19-epilepsy, a rare genetic disorder characterized primarily by seizures with other symptoms including cognitive and developmental delays. With the support of her family and the staff at the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital — the only level 4 epilepsy center in the state of Oregon — she’s thriving. In the video above, hear from Colin Roberts, M.D., FAES, Director of the Doernbecher Childhood Epilepsy Program, about what makes the program unique.
Your gift can save lives
When you support OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, you’re helping kids like Ja’Kai, Connor and Quin. Get to know them and their families in these videos from Freestyle 20, and learn what drives these incredible young people.
“My mom is my hero, because she does so much for me,” Ja’Kai says.
“Doernbecher is so caring,” Connor says. “They’re pretty incredible.”
“They’ve done miracles for me. They’ve made my life amazing — the best it could be.,” says Quin.
Make a gift to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital — so that personalized, life-saving care is there when families need it most.
Kids need research just for them
Kids aren’t mini adults. Which means that research conducted on adults can’t just be shrunk down to fit children. Kids’ bodies and brains are still developing and growing — and because they have their entire lives ahead of them, it’s important to minimize the long-term effects of any new therapy or treatment. At Doernbecher, our researchers develop innovative treatments designed specifically to benefit our youngest patients.
How your gift helps kids
We encourage our donors to make a gift to the “area of greatest need” at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. But what does that mean? When you give, your generosity is fueling support for life-saving care and breakthrough research to help kids. Your gift makes an impact.
Doernbecher Philanthropy Board
Meet the members of the board that drives fundraising strategy for Doernbecher.
Get in Touch
For more information on how you can make a difference for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, please contact Sarah Larson, Assistant Vice President of Development.
Patient Care
Pediatric epilepsy patient thriving thanks to Doernbecher care
Meet 9-year-old Hazel. Despite having a rare form of epilepsy, she's living life to the fullest thanks to her care team at Doernbecher.
Patient Care
In conversation: a team united for Lyra
In this audio story, Mike and Alexis Meade sat down with their daughter's pulmonologist, Dr. Jonathan Krasinkiewicz, to reflect on her progress and the care that made it possible.
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More than meets the eye
When 10-year-old Waiaka was diagnosed with cataracts, her doctor at the Elk Children's Eye Clinic detected another issue that helped save her life.
