Partner Hospitals and Requesting Assistance

The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation works through the following pediatric medical facilities. If your child is being treated at one of these centers, please contact your child’s social worker for more information on how to obtain assistance from our foundation’s program, or e-mail us at info@andreriveroflife.org.

If your child is treated at a pediatric hospital not on this list, you may be eligible for assistance from our Everyday Needs Assistance Fund for pediatric cancer patients, or from our Compassion Can’t Wait Fund for children with other catastrophic diagnoses. Parents and social workers may contact the foundation directly for more information and for an application: info@andreriveroflife.org or (310) 276-7111.

Please contact the facilities directly regarding their guidelines and the treatments available at their centers.

Children’s Hospital – Boston

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron

Institute for Families

Miller Children’s Hospital

Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA

Texas Children’s Hospital

The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Ventura County Medical Center

Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

Alumni Partners:

City of Hope

Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital

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From Our Partners

For a look at a hospital's perspective, this review is from the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA:

"Since last January, when we began this partnership with you, your foundation has assisted twenty of our families in crisis. You have helped with rent and mortgage payments, food, utilities, gasoline, and gift certificates.

This has meant that some families have been able to maintain stable and safe homes for their sick children. Others have been able to ensure transportation to medical appointments to receive care. For some families, the assistance has allowed the parent to enrich the child's life while receiving treatment. Your help has even allowed a terminally ill child to be in her own home with the level of care necessary for her comfort. These funds have given families time to regroup and focus on the needs of the child. Your foundation is unique in that it is the only agency with the capacity to respond emergently without the reams of paperwork required by other agencies. This often means the parent does not have to leave the bedside and can focus on caring for the child."

-- Dr. Sakamoto and Staff