About Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area

For 45 years, RMHC Bay Area has been partnering with our region’s children’s healthcare providers to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Over the years — and only because of the generosity of donors who have supported our cause — we have evolved. We continue to develop programs to meet families’ needs as they face the medical uncertainty and financial stress of caring for their children.

Today, RMHC Bay Area serves critically ill children through a network of Ronald McDonald House Charity programs that provide housing, meals and psychosocial support inside or nearby Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. Our Ronald McDonald Care Mobile provides free dental care services to children in the East Bay in partnership with John Muir Community Health Alliance.

Mission & Vision

The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Our vision is a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children.

• Families: We hold families at the heart of our mission and all our decisions.
• Relationships: We nurture relationships and create communities—between families, each other and with the volunteers, donors and partners who make our work possible.
• Excellence: We support each other in achieving excellence by being innovative, financially healthy, accountable for results, solutions-oriented, and continuously improving.
• Purpose: We find purpose in all that we—and those around us—do in support of families. Our work matters.
• Diversity: We embrace diversity, welcoming all people, listening to all perspectives and creating a sense of belonging for the families we serve and the staff, volunteers, donors and partners who support them.
• Integrity: We commit to integrity by modeling fair, honest, responsible and respectful behavior.