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All Children Deserve Access to Quality Healthcare
On my one-year anniversary as president and CEO of Children’s Health Fund (CHF), I reflect on my privilege to lead an organization that strives to ensure that all children receive the healthcare they deserve and need to thrive and succeed. As an immigrant myself—entering the United States at age seven, from Cuba via Nicaragua—I could not…
Stories from the Frontlines
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) recently had the opportunity to sit down with Licensed Practical Nurse Maria Ramos from the Bronx Health Collective, a CHF National Network partner, to talk about her experience as a healthcare professional throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Maria has been at the Bronx Health Collective for eight years and had incredible insight…
A Public Health Crisis: Gun Violence and Child Health and Well-being
Gun violence has been the leading cause of death of youth under age 20 in the United States since 2020, surpassing death from car crashes, cancer, and COVID-19. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reveals that 4,368 U.S. children and adolescents under age 20 died from firearms in 2020, with 64% by homicide and…
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Children’s Health Fund Launches Back-to-School Health Tool for Families
NEW YORK, August 22, 2022 – Children’s Health Fund (CHF) today released “My Health Passport”, a handy tool families can use over the school year to track their children’s vision, dental, and mental health as well as other conditions—such as asthma—that can affect classroom performance. The 12-page booklet—chock full of practices that support a child’s health…
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) Receives $1.5 Million From Red Nose Day 2022
Children’s Health Fund (CHF) announced today that it received $1.5 million from the record $49 million donated for this year’s Red Nose Day, funding that will help advance its mission to ensure that all children have access to quality healthcare. Comic Relief US launched the fundraising campaign in the United States in 2015 as an…
Statement on the approval of COVID-19 vaccinations for children 6 months through 5 years of age.
The life the COVID-19 vaccine saves may be your child’s It is heartening to see that at long last children under age five are being vaccinated against COVID-19. And while we welcome this development as an overdue step forward in bringing the pandemic closer to an end, we also hope that many more parents are…
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Vaccines, Equity, and Kids: Another Chance to Put Children First
For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, life-saving vaccines were not available for children and adolescents. But now children five and older are receiving vaccinations, and starting this week, those as young as six months will be eligible. At minimum, expanding vaccine eligibility means that vaccinated children will face a much lower risk of infection, hospitalization,…
Telehealth services to expand for children in Avery, McDowell schools through $100,000 Baxter International Foundation Grant
SPRUCE PINE – The Baxter International Foundation has announced that the foundation has awarded Children’s Health Fund (CHF) a $100,000 grant to continue and expand telehealth and COVID-19 response services for students in North Carolina’s rural McDowell and Avery counties. The funds will enable CHF affiliate, Center for Rural Health Innovation’s Health-e-Schools program, to provide…