Ronald McDonald House Charities of SLA

We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We envision a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Louisiana provides a "home away from home" to over 1230 caregivers and children annually who travel many miles to receive specialized medical care for their seriously ill or injured child at nearby medical facilities. At Ronald McDonald House New Orleans and our Ronald McDonald Family Room in Lafayette, they find comfortable and inviting nightly accommodations, private en-suites complete with full baths, free wi-fi access, in room entertainment options, hot meals/snacks, ample secure on-site parking, in-house programming, and a built-in support system where families help one other. We also bring our House to the halls of Manning Family Children's Hospital and Ochsner Main Campus with our Hospitality Carts.

Testimonials

"People might not realize that when a child gets sick, it's hard on the whole family. Moms, dads, or grandparents like me have to leave their jobs, and with very little money and very few resources, come down to a city they've never been before and not knowing anyone here. But when you stay at the Ronald McDonald House, it makes things easier, and after a while, everyone calls you by name and asks, 'How's your baby?'

"Staying with the other people in our situation, it's a support group that's so much like a family. It's meant a lot, to me and the people we've had those experiences with at the House."