122 families have benefited from the Ronald McDonald House (RMH) at Windsor Regional Hospital (WRH) in its first year of operation.
Harrow's Rebecca Wright had premature twin boys last May, and says she's thankful her family was able to utilize the service.
"Basically they needed help to breathe," says Wright. "We live in Harrow so it would've been about a 40-minute drive back and forth every day. "It would've been so difficult [not having stayed at RMH]," says Wright. "I wouldn't have spent so much time with my boys as I did, and I wouldn't have known them as well — I certainly wouldn't have known their health so well. I had to have a c-section when I delivered so I wouldn't have been able to drive and had to find someone to drive me back and forth each day just to see them."
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She says her boys are now thriving thanks to the care and attention they received.
"Because of them I was able to get discharged from the hospital and right into the RMH," says Wright. "Because of them I was able to spend morning, noon and night with my babies — I got to cuddle them every day and see them and help as much as I could. Once we started feeding them I was also able to be there for every feed."
Statistics show an average stay for a family at the RMH at WRH was 13 nights — with one family staying for 73 nights.
Windsor's Ronald McDonald House is the first in Canada that's housed inside a hospital.
— with files from AM800's Peter Langille
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