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Welcome to UC Davis Children's Hospital--
Here we go, into the room.
All right, we got your ID band.
--where local kids like me get quality care, thanks to people
like you.
Danny, jump.
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UC Davis Children's Hospital is a CMN Hospital.
It's the only one in our area.
That means CMN funds raised here stay here
to help local children in 33 counties.
A family in the Sacramento Valley going through something
unimaginable and difficult, they have everything they need here.
Danny, down.
Yeah, good.
Oh, good boy.
All right.
Did you know, CMN donations pay for programs,
services, equipment, and facilities
that help pediatric patients?
Even babies who haven't been born yet.
Fetal surgery is our ability to identify problems
in unborn babies and then operate on that baby
before they're born.
This is a very specialized field.
UC Davis Medical Center is able to do open fetal surgery.
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Sometimes, newborn babies need extra care.
So they may spend time here in the NICU.
Take a look inside.
Is he on any medications at all?
The NICU allows us, in our partnership
with our neonatologists, to take care of the most severely
affected children.
You still sleeping, bud?
In a lot of ways, the NICU is the linchpin
for our ability to be able to care for our smallest patients.
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Bigger kids often need specialized care as well.
When you fundraise, you help make that possible too.
Let's visit the pediatric and cardiac intensive care unit.
Hi, Miss Alaina, hi.
Pediatric ICU is a place where children in Sacramento
and surrounding areas who require
a higher level of monitoring are brought for intensive care.
Because our ratios are two patients per nurse
or one patient per nurse, I'm able to give
a lot more direct care, a lot more hands-on.
I feel like this is a place where we can really just
be nurses.
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Another thing that makes our CMN Hospital special
is our Children's Surgery Center.
Welcome in.
I'm going to put a little magic straw into your hand here.
And we're going to be able to give you
some medicine through that to make you sleepy.
Our surgery center is designed specifically for kids' needs
and is decorated with us in mind.
Here, we get expert care when we have an operation.
It is a state-of-the-art facility.
It's beautiful.
The physical layout is terrific.
It's very intimate.
It feels, as a parent, like a place
I would want to bring my kids.
Everyone is focused on kids.
We're all trained in pediatric and childhood surgical care.
And it's a fantastic environment to execute
world-class pediatric care.
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At UC Davis Children's Hospital, doctors and nurses
help heal our bodies.
But they're not the only people on our care team.
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The goal of the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy
department is to focus on the emotional well-being
of children and families here in the hospital.
You want to play with the syringe?
We know that the more children know and understand
about what to expect while they're here,
the better they do overall in the long run.
Isn't that cool?
A whole team dedicated to making our hospital experience better.
You know, we have you to thank for that too, right?
When you fundraise for CMN, this department
can provide even more support to kids and families, like this.
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Now that you've had a chance to take a look inside,
you know UC Davis Children's Hospital provides
amazing care, care that would not be
possible without your support.
What we're trying to create here is
a center of excellence for the care of children.
We can't do it only on the backs of the goodwill
and the hard work of the people here.
Want to show me how strong you are?
Sweat equity only goes so far, and that
what we do need is support in terms of resources
for more space, and more equipment, and more technology
to be able to provide the level of care that we can here.
Can you wave?
Bye-bye.
Donors make a huge difference.
And there's no question that without them,
even the greatest of hospitals wouldn't
be as great as they are.
It's very clear that donors are critical to the lifeblood
and growth of hospitals.
It's incredibly touching to know that the community is out there
supporting Children's Miracle Network to help us do our jobs.
It's because of your generosity, your vision, your compassion,
your love that we have a facility like this.
And these kids benefit from your generosity.
I hope you enjoyed our tour.
And remember, the funds you raise for CMN
stay local to help kids right here in your community.
Kids like me.
Thank you for helping us get the care we need when we need it.
We don't save lives.
We save lifetimes.
We have the ability and opportunity
to impact that person for the rest of their life.
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