The local Children’s Miracle Network Celebration Broadcast, which aired on NBC 26 on June 3 and 4, celebrated a total of $922,136 raised in the past year to benefit programs and services at the MCG Children’s Medical Center. “As our parents have told us many times, you never realize how important a children’s hospital is until you need it. But we can’t do our jobs without the support of our friends and neighbors,” said Connie Guinn, CMN Director. “Thanks to the generosity of our community, our families, our staff and NBC 26, this has truly been one of our most successful celebrations ever.” During the weekend alone, pledges and donations exceeded $29,000, surpassing last year’s pledges by more than $4,000. Last-minute online and other donations are expected to bring the final tally to about $925,000.

Patients, families and CMN committee members celebrate as the final tally is revealed during the 21st annual Children’s Miracle Network Celebration Broadcast in Augusta, benefiting the MCG Children’s Medical Center.

The MCG Children’s Medical Center is a not-for-profit organization and depends on community support to provide patient care services to children and families. Funds raised will go toward the purchase of specialized equipment for children such as the Giraffe Bed, a universal bed for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and will also support programs such as the Child Life Department, who help make a child’s stay in the hospital a little more like home.
 

Last year’s event celebrated donations totaling more than $746,000. The MCG Children’s Medical Center has been a beneficiary of CMN since 1986.

MCG Health System is composed of three separate organizations -- MCG Health, Inc. and the clinical services offered by the faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the members of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation. The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians, faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia, or employees of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation, not employees of MCG Health, Inc.  MCG Health, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCG Medical Center, MCG Children’s Medical Center, the MCG Sports Medicine Center, MCG Ambulatory Care Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center and related clinical facilities and services. MCG Health, Inc. was formed to support the research and education mission of the Medical College of Georgia and to build the economic growth of the CSRA, the state of Georgia and the Southeast by providing an environment for faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation and community physicians to deliver the highest level of primary and specialty health care.  For more information, please visit www.MCGHealth.org.