"Thank you, and please know that I am forever grateful for the work you do for children and their families. You were a Godsend and a blessing in shaping my twin granddaughter's lives and enabled them to have a secure and confident future that could have been otherwise without your wise counsel and treatments. Keep up the good work."
- Ester Huey
With the support of our generous community, Children's Village, a regional integrated center for children with special health-care needs and their families, multiple service providers and services are able available all under one roof. The comprehensive family-centered organization aims to meet each child’s need for individualized care with over 35 kinds of specialized services. There are medical specialty clinics, developmental evaluations and collaborative diagnostic clinics, dental services, occupational, physical and speech therapy, mental health counseling, education services, behavioral intervention and nurse home-visiting programs. The village also offers a comprehensive parent and family support program called Parent to Parent.
5,851 visits occurred in our Pediatric Therapy Program (PTS) in 2020 which services children ages 3-18 through occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech and language pathology.
7,345 visits occurred in 2020 through our home visiting program called Early Intervention (ages birth-three) for PT/OT/ST. 5,624 Early Intervention visits occurred by home educators and 730 visits occurred by nurses in our home visiting program for a total of 13,699 visits.
"The first time I saw my daughter, I was stunned and speechless. The vision I had in my mind of what my first days as a mother would be, were anything but this. I was scared, I didn't know what to do. Thank you to the nurses, doctors and staff for providing the best care and helping our family navigate all the uncertainty. I can't imagine not having a NICU right here in our community. They saved my daughter's life and for that I am forever grateful."
- A Yakima NICU mom
The gift of growing up. From updated equipment in Memorial's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to early diagnosis and treatment of special needs, your support helps to ensure the more than 400 vulnerable babies served each year in the NICU reach their fullest potential. As Central Washington's only NICU, specialty care is available for at-risks infants. More than a third of those treated were not anticipated to need the extra care and skilled nursing available at Memorial. Your donations truly make a difference in these tiny lives.
Few things are more frightening to parents than having a child in the hospital. Yakima Valley Memorial's team of pediatricians and nurses understand these concerns and focuses its efforts on providing individualized, comprehensive medical care in a unit that is designed with the child and family in mind. Yakima Valley Memorial's pediatric unit is a highly specialized, self-contained department dedicated to the medical care and treatment of infants and children.The Pediatrics Department treats children and youth 17 and under for a variety of health concerns while providing support to their families. Last year the department cared for 1,300 patients.
Memorial Hospital opened in 1950 and the first baby was born the next day. Yakima Valley Memorial has developed one of the most comprehensive and sophisticated maternity care programs in Washington. Since 1950, there have been over 140,000 births, averaging 2,500 births each year!
Since 1993, Yakima Valley Memorial has been a Children's Miracle Network Hospital having raised nearly $8 million dollars for local children with special health care needs! To learn more about CMN please visit our website here.
