Programs
“We’re gonna try to help as many kids as possible. It’s a promise I made to her during her last hours, and it’s a promise I’ll never break.”
The Fight on Makenna Foundation provides support programs that aid families and children diagnosed with cancer. These programs include parking vouchers for treatment visits, hotel stay programs, and inpatient gaming programs. These programs are designed to help the child diagnosed and the family with logistics, financials, and emotions.
Support
Through this program, families receive parking vouchers for inpatient and outpatient visits. Parking costs can add up after spending weeks in the hospital. Fight On Makenna is providing funds to offset the burdensome costs for families for long-term stays in the hospital.
Parking
Is an approach to treating cancer with complementary therapies, including conventional medicine. Below are some different types of integrated oncology, the Fight on Makenna Foundation Provides financial support for.
Integrated Oncology
Fight On Makenna funds CHoP’s Hotel Stay Program to help with the financial burden on families when they need to stay close to the hospital after discharge or while their child is inpatient.
Hotel
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHoP) allows patients and their families to cook together through fun demonstrations! Through collaboration with a medical chef educator and oncology dietician, live and interactive cooking demonstrations are given on a mobile cooking cart for families to watch and practice.
Nutrition
Fight On Makenna has worked with CHoP’s Child Life Team to provide gaming systems to distract children from the long hours and rigors of inpatient cancer treatments. These systems are used in the common area and in patient rooms of the oncology floors at the CHoP main hospital and KOP Center.
Inpatient Gaming
Fight On Makenna has funded fitness equipment for the oncology floor of CHoP. The fitness equipment allows therapists to help patients make progress with their endurance and conditioning during long inpatient hospitalizations. These simple pieces of equipment give therapists the opportunity to do interventions that work to balance strength endurance and age-appropriate mobility skills all in one session, and it makes therapy more fun for children.
Fitness
