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Deanna Steinhauser: Dominic has Charge syndrome. He was in the neonatal intensive care unit.
One night we get a phone call that our son had just coded which means he stopped breathing.
And because we had because we had nowhere to stay up there we were 45 minutes away.
And so that 45 minute drive to get back to him, not knowing if he was ok or not, was
the worst, probably the worst point in my entire life. And then this social worker told
us about the Ronald MacDonald House and it changed everything.
Anne Czarnecki: The Ronald McDonald House is a home away from home. We’re a stone’s
throw away from the hospital and that’s so critical so that families can come back
and forth within a moment’s notice. We’re so excited for the new house to have 86 bedrooms
compared to our 21 right now. Our goal is to never turn away a single family.
Joe Antunovich: This building and the New Children’s Memorial hospital has been constructed
just five blocks from each other. One of the very early goals is to make this building
as energy efficient as we possibly could. So we turned to DuPont.
Ted Williams: When we were asked to be involved with this project it was quite an honor. At
DuPont our number one goal is to create products that reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Joe Antunovich: Tyvek Fluid Applied system creates a weather tight enclosure and it’s
a onetime application. Ted Williams: Over the lifetime of the building
the reduction in energy costs could be up to 40%. It means that that money could go
for food or medicine or things that they need to run their charity. I don’t know of any
other better way to use our science. Deanna Steinhauser: If we didn’t have the
Ronald McDonald House as part of our life. We wouldn’t have our family together.