Watch the 2008
Children's Miracle Network Broadcast
from  8:00 p.m. Saturday, May 31,
to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, June 1

During the 2007 Children's Miracle Network Celebration, you helped us raise over $462,000 for Cottage Children's Hospital! Thank you for your support – it really does make a difference!



 

 

For the past 21 years, individuals, families, community groups, small businesses, corporations and foundations in Santa Barbara County have joined together to support Cottage Children’s Hospital by participating in the annual Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Celebration on KEYT-TV Channel 3, our area’s ABC affiliate.

Cottage Children’s Hospital is recognized as a regional referral center for the medical needs of infants, toddlers, and children throughout the tri-county area, and Cottage serves children of all ages regardless of their family’s ability to pay. Please help us fulfill this vital mission.

In our community, every penny of your donation to the Children’s Miracle Network is used to improve medical care for local children. Your support helps us provide service to children based on need, not upon the ability to pay.

Every year this event helps us raise money to improve medical care for local children. Years ago, when Santa Barbara children and babies were critically ill, they had to be sent out of town for special care. This imposed a double hardship on families: the trauma of having an extremely ill child, in addition to separation and long commutes.

Today, thanks to everyone who has contributed to Cottage's annual Children's Miracle Network Telethons, we have the facilities and the pediatric specialists to treat babies and children right here at home. Funds from this year's broadcast will help us completely rebuild Cottage Children's Hospital -- a constellation of special medical services for our youngest and most fragile patients.

As part of the rebuilding of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to meet state seismic standards, the new Children's Hospital will position our newborn nursery, neonatal intensive care unit, pediatrics unit, pediatric intensive care unit, pediatric oncology program, and air ambulance and trauma center within minutes of one another, saving valuable time when a child is critically ill. The new Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital will incorporate all of the sophisticated technology needed for optimal patient care, combined with the personal, compassionate care that is the trademark of Cottage Health System.

The Children’s Miracle Network Celebration began in 1983 as a television special to raise money for children. The first year it was broadcast by 30 television stations and benefited 22 hospitals.

In 1987, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital joined forces with Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) and KEYT TV Channel 3. Now Cottage is one of 170 prestigious hospitals affiliated with the Children’s Miracle Network Celebration. The goal of the CMN broadcast is to increase community awareness of the services Cottage Health System provides and the benefits to local children.

 
 


For more information on how to make a contribution to Cottage Children's Hospital, call (805) 879-8980; or write to the address below.

You may also use the online donation form and simply note that you would like your gift directed toward one of our children's services at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Children's Miracle Network
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
P.O. Box 689
Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689

 

Thank you for caring!

 
 
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