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Eaton Family Credit Union Joins in Funding Horticultural Therapy Suite to Help Kids From Across Ohio
Treated at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland

Euclid, Ohio(Sept. 28, 2016) – Built upon a “people helping people” philosophy, credit unions continually join forces to better Ohio’s communities. The most-recent example of this cooperative nature took place earlier this year in conjunction with the spectacle of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland. Eaton Family Credit Union joined the rest of Ohio’s 300 credit unions, along with the 2016 RNC, to build a year-round horticultural therapy suite at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, to positively impact the hospital’s young patients and enrich the local community.

The new horticultural therapy suite is an enhancement of Angie’s Rooftop Garden at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Open year-round, the Horticultural Therapy Suite provides young patients with a place to enjoy gardening and plant-based activities for exercise, relaxation, and stress reduction. Patients can work with plants, soil and seeds as they dig into nature. New equipment and activity centers in the suite will help the staff at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital address the special needs of hospitalized children and their families.

“The horticultural therapy suite is a place of exploration, learning, growth and relaxation; it invites visitors to step away from the day-to-day life of visiting and living in the hospital, giving patients and their families an opportunity to explore and experience the world outside the hospital,” said Mike Losneck, CEO of Eaton Family Credit Union. “And we’re tremendously proud of having helped the suite become a reality, serving the thousands of sick and injured children from throughout Ohio who are treated at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.”

Ohio’s credit unions honored the Republican National Convention by taking on the project. The effort represents a tradition of credit unions honoring cities that host the national party conventions with “leave-behind” projects which serve the local communities long after the conventions have left town. A similar project was done for the children’s hospital in Philadelphia, host of the Democratic National Convention. 

Statewide fundraising by Ohio’s credit unions rose more than the target goal of $325,000, the amount needed to cover the costs of the projec

 About UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital: Internationally renowned, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital is a full-service children’s hospital and pediatric academic medical center with experts in 16 medical divisions and 11 surgical specialties who offer nationally ranked care not available at other institutions in the region, including Northeast Ohio’s only single-site provider of advanced maternal fetal medicine and neonatology services, and the Angie Fowler Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Institute dedicated to adolescent and young adult cancer treatment. As the primary pediatric affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the only Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the region, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital offers access to novel therapies, advanced technologies and clinical discoveries long before they are available nationwide. Rainbow pediatric specialists – all of whom also serve on the faculty at the School of Medicine – are engaged in today’s most advanced clinical research and are widely regarded as the best in the nation – and in some specialties, the best in the world. Learn more at Rainbow.org.

 About 2016 Republican National Convention: The 2016 Republican National Convention was held at the Quicken Loans Arena from July 18-21, 2016. Nearly 50,000 visitors came to the Cleveland area for the event, including delegates, alternate delegates, members of the media and other guests.  For more information about the 2016 Republican National Convention, please visit our website at www.convention.gop.