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To deliver donations, please call the Community Relations Department at (865) 541-8165. Donations may be left at the Information Desk in the main lobby of the hospital or delivered to Community Relations. Please attach your name and address to your donation. WHAT WE CAN ACCEPT
WHAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PLAYROOMS, PATIENT ROOMS, OUTPATIENT CLINICS, THE SCOTT M. NISWONGER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND PATIENT GIFTS INFANT/TODDLER ITEMS:
PRESCHOOL ITEMS:
SCHOOL-AGE ITEMS:
TEEN ITEMS:
TRAY FAVORS AND GET WELL CARDS:
OTHER ITEMS WE WELCOME: Phone Cards – For families of modest means or families who are here frequently, there's a great need to keep in touch with family at home, but long distance phone calls can become costly. It is a great help to these families to have long-distance phone cards in any amount of minutes, such as you can buy at Wal-Mart and many other retailers, to enable them to keep in touch with home without worrying about the cost of their next phone bill. Gift Cards – Many of our patients and their families have specific needs or wants that can be most easily met with gift cards. These cards allow teens to have the fun of choosing their own gift on a special occasion, such as their birthday, a meaningful holiday or the completion of cancer treatment. At various times of the year, gift cards can also be used to help families with limited incomes to meet specific material needs. And during the December holidays, as part of our Adopt-A-Family program, gift cards help the hospital to provide a brighter season to 30 or more needy patient families each year. Parents who receive the gift cards have an opportunity to buy a few items of their own choosing for their kids or for their household. Gift cards from the following retailers and businesses in any amounts starting at $5 are especially useful:
Magazines – Donors can purchase subscriptions of new magazines for use in hospital waiting rooms or collect magazines to bring to the hospital that are 3 months old or less. No magazines that are religious in nature or deemed inappropriate for all age groups will be accepted. Magazine subscriptions ordered for the hospital should be addressed to: Volunteer Services Dept., Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 15010, Knoxville, TN 37901. Here is a list of appropriate magazine titles:
Scrapbooking supplies – In 2004, Children's Hospital began a scrapbook program for each baby who is admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The patient's nurse puts together the first pages, including information and photos detailing the baby's admission to the NICU. Then the parents are encouraged and helped by the nursing staff to create more scrapbook pages chronicling their baby's first days, weeks or even months. Children's Hospital patients at some of our summer camps also participate in scrapbooking projects. Donations of scrapbooking materials will help these families to record memories of special times, like a baby's first weeks or a child's experience at summer camp. Batteries – Every day at Children's Hospital, patients are busy playing with toys or electronics that are battery operated. As children's toys increasingly go electronic, we use a larger number of batteries each year. Donations of batteries, especially sizes C and D, are great for keeping all our patients' toys and entertainment items in working order. Clothing – The Children's Hospital Volunteers maintain a Clothing Closet to help our patient families with emergency clothing needs. The closet assists patients and families of all ages. The following gently used clothing items are needed: elastic waist/casual pants, sweat pants, sweat shirts and long-sleeved T-shirts. In addition, new underwear and socks are needed. The Clothing Closet also stocks basic toiletry items, including toothbrushes and travel/hotel-size shampoo, soap and toothpaste. Food for family kitchens – Many of our patient families have extended stays at Children's Hospital, and a great way to help these families through the difficulty of hospitalization is by the donation of nonperishable, commercially prepared, prepackaged foods and beverages for snacks or small meals. Each patient floor has a family kitchen or lounge where families can prepare simple meals and snacks, and donated food items can be provided to the families in these areas. Items such as individual canned fruit or applesauce (with a pop-top or peel-off top so no can opener is needed), bags of microwave popcorn, microwavable canned soups and pasta dishes, small individually wrapped snacks (such as pretzels, graham crackers, fruit snacks, cheese crackers, cookies, candy, etc.), breakfast and cereal bars, and individual servings of beverages (juice boxes and canned or bottled sodas, juices, iced tea and lemonade). Please note that due to food safety guidelines, no homemade foods can be accepted, and all donated food items must be sealed in single servings. If you have any questions about donations for Children's Hospital, please contact the Community Relations Department at (865) 541-8276. |
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We are grateful that you are interested in donating items for the patients and families at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. Items are always needed for children to use while they are hospitalized or while they are receiving treatment in the Scott M. Niswonger Emergency Department or in the outpatient clinics. Items are also appreciated for gifts for patients on their birthdays, for special holidays, for off-therapy parties and for other celebrations and treatment milestones. The age range of our patients who will receive the gifts is birth to 21 years. 