The Ronald McDonald House
The Ronald McDonald House, Toledo’s home-away-from-home, offers families who travel to Toledo for their children’s specialized medical care a warm, safe, clean, and friendly environment. The Ronald McDonald House has fourteen private bedrooms and bathrooms, a spacious kitchen with well-stocked pantries, refrigerators, and freezers, family-friendly dining and living rooms, a den, two age-appropriate play rooms, laundry facilities, an outdoor deck and play yard, and secure parking.
Families can stay as long as their children are receiving specialized medical care. And, they can return as often as necessary for follow-up care. Families who stay at the Ronald McDonald House are truly guests: Services are provided to our guest families free-of-charge.
The Ronald McDonald House represents our community’s concern for those among us who battle the devastating effects of a child’s serious illness or injury.
How the Ronald McDonald House Helps The Ronald McDonald House is just minutes from all hospitals and medical centers in Toledo, allowing families the comfort that comes from togetherness during a medical crisis. Without the Ronald McDonald House, families would face expensive hotel and meal costs, long commutes, sleeping, often uncomfortably, in a chair or on a cot at the hospital, or, the worst alternative of all, being absent.
Research studies and human intuition agree: Sick children who are surrounded by the people they love get better faster than those whose loved ones can’t be with them. And, parents and caregivers who are present and active in their children’s care are less stressed and better able to provide love and reassurance.
Togetherness during a medical ordeal strengthens families. And, strong families build strong communities.
Funding
Funding for the Ronald McDonald House Contrary to popular belief, the Ronald McDonald House is not owned or operated or fully-funded by McDonald’s restaurants or by ProMedica Health System. The Ronald McDonald House is part of a larger organization, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Ohio, who is accountable to its mission and responsible for raising funds to cover its expenses.
