Ronald McDonald House of Dallas

RMHD’s approach is both love and care centered and focuses on serving our diverse, multicultural, multilingual, and intergenerational families through an expansive compound with facilities for everyone. Our focus is on the Quality of Life (QoL) for the whole family. QoL of individuals is closely related to the QoL of those around them, including parents, siblings, partners, and extended family. A diagnosis of chronic and/or serious illness/injury carries the capacity to impact the life of the family, and parents of children with chronic disease report lower self-development, restrictions on their well-being and emotional stability and lower levels of daily functioning.

Broaden/ Diversify and Cultivate our Base of Supporters
- Increase funds from individuals to donors to reduce our reliance on events ( Reach a broader base of donors, especially northward and also expand relationships with the next generation of donors)
- Establish a Planned Giving Program
-Potentially Increase fundraising staff to support growth
-Create and Execute a marketing plan that increases awareness of RMHD and drives people to take action
Continue to Expand ways to serve more families
-Continue to partner with hospitals and see what services are needed based upon family needs- such as a house within a hospital, more family rooms and hospitality carts
-Explore programming needs in the greater North Texas and East Texas Regions
- Address the growing need of the house as the years go on
Enhance our services and operational excellence
-Provide additional services for families- therapy, counseling, tutoring, transportation, etc.
-Expand volunteer base to support growing needs
- Grow operational staff to support growth in programming
- Establish long term financial and operational plan

Our organization is readily prepared to meet our expanding needs and will grow our staff and volunteer base as necessary to meet our needs. We already have it in our plan to grow our operational staff as we continue to expand and will also grow others areas of our staff as we need to do so. The RMHD continues to serve families and now has a larger footprint in the Dallas area than ever before. We make a large impact with the House that we have.
RMHD has 89 guest rooms that allow up to keep families close to their nearest and dearest loved ones. We are situated in the heart of the Dallas Medical District which allows us to serve more families than you could imagine. We serve these families by providing three meals a day, transportation to and from local hospitals, while also providing activities for them to do throughout their time at RMHD.

The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Family Foundation Wing, an 18,000 square-foot expansion just finished construction and started accepting families in the Fall of 2019. Thirty guest rooms were built, adding to the 52 private rooms and six transplant apartments that the House had available. The new wing will allow 800 more families a year to use the House as a home-away-from-home while their children are being treated for critical illnesses or injuries in the Dallas area. It will include 24 standard size guest room, six long-term stay suites, two laundry rooms, two family rooms, an outdoor splash pad, expanded parking, and updates to the current facility.

With this expansion it will help us not have to turn away families, as we have done in the past. As stated above, we will be able to serve more families and give them a home away from home.

We see ourselves continuing to expand - whether that be up north or adding family rooms and hospitality carts. We will continue to serve our existing hospitals in the Dallas Medical District, but we also see ourselves adding family rooms to hospitals in the future- we do not know exactly when this will be, but do know it will happen os we can increase the number of families that we will serve.

The RMHD will continue to serve families and keep families close and give them a home away from home.