The Board of Directors of Hospital Hospitality House of Saginaw decorated a tree this year for the Festival of Trees. This was the 7th year that we decorated a tree for this event. The theme of our tree this year was “NICU” in honor of the families we serve with babies in the NICU.

In addition to decorating a tree for the event, HHH volunteers and board members sold homemade jam made by a former guest and our 2021 handcrafted NICU ornaments. The proceeds of the sales at our booth went to sponsor nights of rest for patients and families staying at our houses.

Festival of Trees is the main event for the Junior League of the Great Lakes Bay Region. We participate in this event each year because the Hospital Hospitality House of Saginaw first began with the help of the Junior League and hospital volunteers in 1984. The 2021 NICU ornaments and some of our Pineapple and First Responder ornaments are still available for purchase for $20 at: https://hhhofsaginaw.ejoinme.org/ornaments. Proceeds go towards helping keep families close in times of medical care.

The Board of Directors of Hospital Hospitality House of Saginaw decorated a tree this year for the Festival of Trees. This was the 7th year that we have decorated a tree for this event. The theme of our tree this year was “NICU” in honor of the families we serve with babies in the NICU.

In addition to decorating a tree for the event, HHH volunteers and board members sold homemade jam made by a former guest. As well as our 2021 handcrafted NICU ornaments. The proceeds of the sales at our booth went to sponsor nights of rest for patients and families staying at our houses.

Festival of Trees is the main event for Junior League of the Great Lakes Bay Region. We participate in this event each year as Hospital Hospitality House of Saginaw first began with the help of Junior League as well as hospital volunteers in 1984. The 2021 NICU ornaments as well as a some of our Pineapple, and First Responder ornaments are still available for purchase on our website: https://hhhofsaginaw.ejoinme.org/ornaments  for $25 each and goes to help keep families close in times of medical care.

After a long day at the hospital talking with medical staff and supporting your loved one it’s nice to come back to a warm meal. So we began working with local groups, pizza places, and businesses to see what we could do to make things a little easier on our guests.

To our delight, the support has been outstanding! Local pizza places such as Papa John’s, Uno’s Chicago Grill, and Milano’s have each offered to sponsor a pizza night once a month for our guests. In addition, we have seen tremendous support from local community groups, churches, and individuals. Even with this great support, we are still always looking for individuals and groups to come in and make a meal for our guests.

Guests will be able to come and eat around 6 pm each day that we have a meal scheduled, or they can come and get a takeout box to take their meal back to the hospital with them.

Our first month of the program has gone really well! But we still need businesses, groups, and individuals to help as this will be a consistent need for our guests and will be an ongoing program. And with the holidays coming up we will need volunteers to help us prepare for Christmas and Thanksgiving. If you would like to help by making a meal for our guests, please visit Meal Train for McNally Hospitality House. If you would like to help provide a meal for our guests but aren’t able to prepare a meal, grub hub certificates and donations are accepted to sponsor a meal by visiting: Meal Train for McNally Hospitality House.