Nationwide Children’s Hospital Wish Lists
You can help our patients and families by donating items on our wish list, including educational toys, games, and other items. If you would like to purchase from our Amazon wish list, the items will be sent directly to the hospital.
If you would like to make a gift that enables our Child Life Specialists and Clinical Specialists to purchase more specialized items only available through special retailers - click here to make your gift online.
Patient Play - Family & Volunteer Services
Child life specialists, music therapists, early childhood development specialists, and sibling liaisons throughout the hospital work hard to be creative in meeting the wide variety of needs of patients and their families. Please help child life specialists engage patients and help them learn skills to assist them in coping, minimizing stress and fear about medical procedures, and helping siblings understand what is happening to their brother or sister.
Behavioral Health Services
Nationwide Children's behavioral health experts recommend therapeutic books, toys that are great for interactive play as a physically regulating strategy; art supplies, bubbles, kinetic sand, and Play-Doh for regulating and relaxing tools; journals and sensory items are great for expression and dolls and figures are great for social and emotional development and interactive play! Please help therapists provide items that provide positive encouragement and coping skills.
Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation Family Resource Center
Nationwide Children's Hospital provides necessary medical care to children regardless of a family's ability to pay. The Family Resource Center provides a comfortable space for family members to relax, take a shower, do laundry, or have a meal in a quiet environment.
CTICU (Cardiothoracic Intensive Care) - H4B
The CTICU at Nationwide Children's Hospital is responsible for managing and treating acutely ill patients with congenital heart disease of all age ranges. Due to the complexity of their illnesses, patients are often here for months. This wishlist was made with the intent to fit the unit's and patients' needs during their stay.
Emergency Department Clothes Closet
Trips to the Nationwide Children’s Emergency Department frequently leave children and parents with ruined clothing that cannot be worn. Please help provide clothing and other necessary items.
Heart Center
The Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital has expertise, compassion and the most advanced technologies. Please visit their wish list to select items that staff has identified as greatly needed.
Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant
The Hem/Onc psychosocial services team helps children understand what they are going through; assists them in coping, minimizing stress and fear about medical procedures, and helps siblings understand what is happening to their brother or sister. One family member’s illness impacts every family member, and we strive to create an environment where children can achieve their best health and families can receive the support to cope with their child’s treatment and care positively.
Homecare and Palliative Care
Hospice and palliative care is designed for families whose children are facing a life-limiting condition and who are seeking additional support and care management from the comfort of home.
Injury Prevention
Injury is the leading cause of death and acquired disability among children and adolescents in the United States. Many of these injuries can be prevented with education and preventative measures taken where children live and play. When provided to our patient families, the items on this Wish List can help ensure that children in our community avoid injury/reinjury.
NICU Neonatal Intensive Care
The tiniest of patients and their families arrive in the NICU with little to no time for preparation and the time that follows is a roller coaster ride of frequent ups and downs. Items on the NICU Wish List provide needed supplies for new moms and some toys that allow parents and caregivers to engage in developmental play.
Pulmonary Medicine
The Pulmonary department includes a multidisciplinary team that cares for patients with a wide range of chronic respiratory disorders such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, and advanced lung disease. Along with meeting their medical needs, they strive to meet psychosocial needs through promoting play, development, and coping. The team provides coping support for potentially stressful medical procedures and engages children in medical play. These resources help our multidisciplinary team support our patients in clinic, in the hospital, and when they are at home.
PICU Pediatric Intensive Care, and Trauma and Burn Center
Often patients arrive at the PICU or in the Trauma and Burn Center after a trip to the emergency department. That trip leaves not just the child, but also the parent, with ruined clothing that cannot be worn. Parents whose children are patients in Intensive Care are frequently too frightened to leave their child's bedside for even the most basic functions. Please help provide clothing to replace their destroyed clothes and some of their basic needs.
Reach Out and Read
Books, like mirrors, help reflect what we observe and know about the world we live in. It’s powerful to read or listen to a story about someone like you. Books also allow us to view and understand lives that are different from our own, like a window onto other experiences. But to succeed as mirrors and windows, books must tell a wide range of stories, and they must include a diversity of people and worlds. Reach Out and Read is committed to increasing access to inclusive books for young people of all races and backgrounds.
School Based Health-Kindergarten Readiness
The Kindergarten Readiness team completes a screening on children ages 3-5 at their well child visit to help ensure that children in our community are ready for Kindergarten. After every screening, the child receives a learning kit. The objectives of providing learning kits to children and their families are to provide children with developmentally appropriate learning materials that facilitate school readiness skills. Items on this list will help our team engage parents and caregivers as primary partners in their child’s development.
Spiritual Care and Bereavement
Nothing can prepare us for the death of a child of someone close to us, and no words can express the depths of sorrow experienced by bereaved families. They can be overwhelmed and at a loss for how to move forward. At Nationwide Children's, we take a holistic approach to accompanying families at the time of death and beyond. Your gifts from the Wish List enable us to help preserve memories, build legacies, and assist with ongoing bereavement support on a path toward healing.
The Center for Family Safety and Healing
The resource room provides needed supplies for patients and families who visit the numerous programs at The Center for Family Safety and Healing. Your donation can assist children and families who are on the path to healing.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation
Physical Address:
525 East Mound Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Toll Free: 1 (866) 317-5437
Tel: (614) 355-5400
Fax: (614) 355-5410