NORFOLK, Va. – Howard Hanna Children’s Free Care Fund has donated the first $100,000 of a five-year, $500,000 donation to support a mental health initiative at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters.
The Howard Hanna Children’s Free Care Fund partners with children’s hospitals across the country, with regional Howard Hanna Real Estate offices raising donations for their local hospital. Thanks to the fundraising efforts of Howard Hanna’s southeast region, the organization presented CHKD with a check of over $100,000 early this month, with more payments planned during the next four years.
The generous donation will support CHKD’s transformative Children’s Pavilion, a 14-story tower currently under construction on the same Norfolk campus as its main hospital. The building will have 60 private inpatient beds for psychiatric treatment that will begin opening later this year. Children’s Pavilion, located on Gresham Drive, will also feature healing amenities like creative expression spaces for music and art therapy, an indoor gym, and a rooftop recreation center where hospitalized children can get exercise and fresh air.
The new building will open to some services this spring, including a pediatric practice, sports medicine, and outpatient mental health care. The goal is to provide an environment that integrates access to mental health services into other routine services in order to de-stigmatize the identification and treatment of psychiatric conditions within the pediatric population. Inpatient services will begin later in the year.