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Click here for KDKA's coverage of the 2009 Ladies Luncheon to benefit The Playroom Project!
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The Playroom Project seeks to benefit families and improve the quality of a child's hospital experience whether as a visitor or patient by furnishing cheerful playrooms that are safe, calming and comfortable.
The Mario Lemieux Foundation created The Playroom Project initiative following Nathalie and Mario Lemieux's personal experience while caring for their profoundly premature infant son at Magee-Women's Hospital. As they were tending to young Austin, there was no place, or no one, to engage the lively minds and provide a comfortable calming environment for his sisters Lauren and Stephanie. It was then that Nathalie devised this idea to someday raise funds for playrooms at area hospitals in western Pennsylvania. Nathalie Lemieux serves as Chair of The Playroom Project, and each room is called Austin's Playroom.
In just 10 years, The Playroom Project has raised funds to renovate and furnish Austin's Playrooms in the following facilities:
Completed Playrooms:
- Magee-Womens Hospital - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - Oncology Playroom
- UPMC Presbyterian Hospital - Radiation / Oncology Department Playroom
- UPMC Passavant Hospital -Emergency Department / General Medical
- The Children's Institute - Playroom
- Gilda's Club - Playroom
- Canonsburg Hospital - Emergency Department
- Somerset Hospital - Emergency Department
- UPMC McKeesport - Emergency Department
- The Children's Home & Lemieux Family Center - Playroom / Playspaces / Outdoor Play Area
- The Western Pennsylvania Hospital - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- St. Clair Hospital - Emergency Department
Scheduled Openings:
- Mercy Hospital - The Children's Medical Center/A Child's Place - Opening April 09
- The New Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - 6th floor inpatient playroom - Opening May 09
- The New Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - Main Entrance - Sibling Center - Opening July 09
- Sewickley Valley Hospital - Emergency Department -Opening September 09
- UPMC Passavant Hospital - Pittsburgh, PA - New Emergency Department - Opening October 09
- UPMC Passavant Hospital, Cranberry, PA - Emergency Department - Opening November 09
- Latrobe Area Hospital, Latrobe, PA - Playroom - Opening February 2010
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The Gerber Daisy is the signature flower of The Playroom Project Lunch and Fundraiser;
click here for details on ordering our notecards, custom designed by Jack and Lulu. |
The Mario Lemieux Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization.
To make a donation to The Playroom Project click here.
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