Hampton Roads St. Jude Spring Fling

Thank you for joining us on Saturday, May 4, 2024 for the 16^th annual Peter Decker Children's Charity Spring Fling at The Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia. All proceeds from this event benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food.

Every child deserves a chance to live their best life and celebrate every moment. When you support St. Jude, you can help make cures possible for kids with cancer. Together, we can save more lives.

St. Jude patient Aria

Every dollar makes a difference*

One red wagon

Wagons are the preferred mode of travel through the halls of the hospital and around campus for our younger patients.

Donate $100
One day of oxygen

St. Jude patients may need oxygen to help their bodies function properly and aid in healing.

Donate $250
Twenty days of meals for a St. Jude patient

St. Jude provides patients and their families with meal cards for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Kay Kafe, the hospital’s cafeteria.

Donate $500
Parent necessities for 20 patient families

Parents who bring their children to St. Jude often leave home in a hurry and forget to pack day-to-day necessities such as shampoos, razors, deodorant, toothbrushes and lotion. At Tri Delta Place, our short-term housing facility, parents can obtain these essentials free of charge.

Donate $1,000
An ultrasound study for a St. Jude patient

An ultrasound study is among the diagnostic imaging tests that doctors use to diagnose and monitor disease and treatment.

Donate $2,500
Daily room rate of the ICU

The Intensive Care Unit at St. Jude has twice been recognized with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence given by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. In 2009, the St. Jude ICU became Tennessee’s first ICU to win the honor.

Donate $5,000
Six days of chemotherapy to leukemia or solid tumor patients

Chemotherapy is treatment with medicines that kill cancer cells. Because these drugs travel through the bloodstream, chemo is called a systemic treatment. Chemo can cure some types of cancer in children.

Donate $10,000
Support St. Jude patients and their families

Your donation will be used to provide breakthrough research, treatment and cures as you join St. Jude in its livesaving mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®

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* Your donation will be used to provide breakthrough research, treatment and cures. Items listed here are representative of services and supplies that are part of the treatment and care of children at St. Jude. The cost of each item or service is an approximation, and will vary based on actual costs incurred and individual patient needs. Your donation will be used for the general operating needs of St. Jude, where no family ever receives a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food.

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