Partner Hospitals and Requesting Assistance

The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation works through a network of five pediatric hospitals that help families access ASRL assistance funds. If your child is being treated at one of these centers, please contact your child’s social worker directly for more information on how to obtain aid from our foundation’s program, or e-mail us at info@andreriveroflife.org.

Current hospital partners:

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Children’s Memorial Hospital Chicago

Miller Children’s Hospital

The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health

Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

Typical payments are used to help families overcome severe finanical burdens that ensure that the child has access to care and a caregiver by his or her side. ASRL funds are also used to ensure family housing and food stability during the child’s illness. ASRL makes payments for housing, transportation, groceries, insurance, phone bills, utilities, sibling needs and other high priority expenses during a medically and financially fragile time.

If your child is treated at a pediatric hospital not on this list, we regret that we do not have funds available to assist you at this time. Nonetheless, we urge you to reach out to your hospital social worker for assistance in accessing other finanical resources to help your family stay financially stable during your child’s illness.

In the past we have proivided major grant support for the Andre Sobel Family Assistance program at the following

Alumni Partner Hospitals:

Akron Children’s Hospital

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Institute for Families

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital

Texas Children’s Hospital

UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital

Ventura County Medical Center

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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