We Get Thanks
We Get Thanks
Some of the “Thank You” correspondence we receive...
Over the years, the Leprechauns have received many letters and cards of thanks and gratitude from children, families and hospital staff—here are just a few.
Holiday thanks from MetroHealth... 
January 14, 2019
On behalf of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Life and Education at MetroHealth, we would like to thank you for your generosity in 2018 and always.
We continue to be overwhelmed by your kindness year after year. We truly appreciate the stocking stuffers and stockings for patients on our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Burn Intensive Care Unit and the pediatric medical surgical floor.
The cookies were delicious and adorable as well. Seeing families receive their gifts for the Adopt-a-Family program will forever be engrained in our hearts. The extreme appreciation and relief felt by families was intense. You made such a difference in the lives of 17 families and all the children in the hospital over the holidays.
Words cannot express how grateful we are for your continued support. your thoughtfulness truly makes a difference. We cannot thank you enough for that. Wishing you a wonderful New Year.
Sincerely,
Jessica Chupnik, MS, CLSS
Manager, Child Life and Education
MetroHealth Medical Center
Annual Rainbow Sickle Cell Community Day 2018...
We had another successful Sickle Cell Community Day with over 160 in attendance!
We provided lunch, had fun activities and community agencies to share information about their services with the parents. We also gave out 124 backpacks for preschool to 12th graders filled with school supplies!
It was a day of smiles and laughter by all. The Rainbow Sickle Cell Team wants to sincerely thank the Leprechauns for their generous donation to once again make this day a reality.
Amy Fink, MSW, LISW-S
Pediatric Sickle Cell Social Worker
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
A 2017 holiday thank you from MetroHealth Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Child Life and Education...
January 24, 2018
Dear Jean and Debbie,
Thank you so much to you and The Leprechaun Foundation for your amazing support during the holiday season and always! We can’t thank you enough for your support of children and families at MetroHealth. Adopting 10 families, delivering cookies, stockings, stocking stuffers and gift cards were all truly wonderful. We are so appreciative!!!
Warmly,
Jessica Chupnik
MetroHealth Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics, Child Life and Education
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, OH 44109
Annual Rainbow Sickle Cell Community Day...
We had a fabulous day at our annual Rainbow Sickle Cell Community Day! This is a fun day when we leave all the medical talk in the clinic!
The over 150 patients and family members who attended had fun doing all the different activities. Some got their faces painted; others visited with Disney characters or chose to make music outside. But everyone enjoyed the lunch before visiting with the community agencies and picking up their free backpack filled with school supplies.
It was a day of smiles and laughter by all. Rainbow's Sickle Cell Team thanks the Leprechauns for assisting with funds to allow this day to happen. We couldn't do it with out you!
Amy Fink, MSW, LISW-S
Pediatric Social Worker
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Christmas cookies in July...
MetroHealth pediatric patients and residents enjoy some summer seasonal fun with Christmas Cookies on July 25th. Even a patient gave a cookie to summer Santa. Thank you so much for this and all you guys do for us.
Jessica Chupnik
MetroHealth Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics, Child Life and Education
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, OH 44109
A 2016 holiday thank you from MetroHealth Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Child Life and Education...
January 26, 2017
To the Leprechaun Foundation,
On behalf of the Department of Pediatrics, Child Life and Education and all of our patients and their families, we want to take this opportunity to thank you very much for all you have done always and most recently over the holidays.
Warmly,
Jessica Chupnik
MetroHealth Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics, Child Life and Education
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, OH 44109
A 2016 holiday thank you from Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation...
December 22, 2016
Greetings Leprechauns:
The Care Management Department at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation is overwhelmed with gratitude for the extended generosity of the Leprechaun organization this Holiday Season.
Warm Regards,
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
2801 MLK Jr. Drive
Cleveland, OH 44104
2016 Holiday Season Thanks...
Above is some thank you correspondence we received over the 2016 holiday season.
Thanks from the 2015 Holiday Season...
Above is some thank you correspondence we received over the 2015 holiday season.
Rainbow Sickle Cell Anemia Center—Sickle Cell Community Day...
I cannot say thank you enough for the funds that the Leprechauns provided to the Rainbow Sickle Cell Anemia Center that helped to fund our Sickle Cell Community Day. We had over 160 patients and family members enjoy a fun day where medical talk was not allowed!
Folks enjoyed lunch, fun activities and gathered information form various community agencies before the children collected their backpacks filled with school supplies.
The cookies were also a hit at the event and also on the inpatient floor.
Thank you again. Without your assistance, this wonderful day could not have happened.
Amy Fink, MSW, LISW-S
Pediatric Social Worker
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
A very special thank you from Barry...
My name is Barry
I would like to say thanks to The Leprechaun Foundation for making my dream come true.
I really enjoy my laptop and earplugs. And the $200 gift certificate was just what I needed. Thank You.
Barry
Church of the Holy Angels...
It was a great pleasure to present you with our donation of $1,114.75 to help you with your efforts in making children’s lives brighter. The combined musical talents of the Holy Angels Choir and the Singing Angels made this possible. Our “Angels and Angels” Concert, held on March 15, 2014 at Solon High School Auditorium, was a special night for all of the 160 singers. The music was spectacular! But what made it even more wonderful for all of the performers was realizing that it was going to benefit children!
I have been to several of your Leprechaun Foundation events over the past many years, so I was very happy to get to choose the charities for the concert. What you do is so wonderful, so important. We hope you can use these funds in some special ways.
Warmest Wishes,
Christie Dilisio
Director of Music
Church of the Holy Angels
MetroHealth Child Life and Education Program...
Year after year the Leprechauns help provide Christmas and joy throughout the holiday season. You adopted 15 families from the MetroHealth community in 2013 and provided items from the family’s wish lists. So many families had Christmas this year because of the Leprechauns.
Erin Whipple, MA, CCLS
Manager – Child Life and Education
MetroHealth Medical Center
University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center...
Thanks you Leprechauns for providing a tremendous number of toys to help make it a little brighter for the children who are treated at Ahuja Medical Center during the holiday season.
Jennifer Mapley, MA, CCLS
Certified Child Life Specialist
Nurse Administration Office
Ahuja Medical Center
The Leprechauns would like to give a special thanks to Direct Recruiter’s Inc. for collecting all the toys that were donated to Ahuja Medical Center.
Leprechauns Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day...
Thank you so much for the cookies. I need to say that Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital “counts” on your generosity to offer these sweet remembrances of holidays to our families. We so appreciate our long standing relationship with the Leprechauns.
There were plenty for everyone and of course many went with Lisa Perry to the Seidman Pediatrics Outpatients. I had to have one too! Yum.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Ray
Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Thank you Leprechauns for the St. Patty’s Day cookies. The children enjoyed them, see the pictures.
Erin Whipple, MA, CCLS
Manager – Child Life and Education
MetroHealth Medical Center
Leprechauns Celebrate
Valentine’s Day...
Thank You Leprechauns for the Valentine’s Day cookies for our Pediatric Patients and families! Everyone loved the special treat.
Erin Whipple, MA, CCLS
Manager – Child Life and Education
MetroHealth Medical Center
The patients, students and staff love them so much that they don’t last very long—not even long enough to take a picture. I’ll try to be quicker and get pictures on St. Patrick’s Day. Thanks Leprechauns.
Jeff Land
Cleveland Clinic Children’s Rehab
Leprechauns Celebrate Halloween...
Overcoming the rainy day outside, the Leprechauns Celebrated Halloween by delivering 900 cookies. Cookies went to The Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center, The Cleveland Clinic Rehabilitation Hospital and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital—bringing Holiday Cheer to those at all the hospitals.
Thanks for the cookie! Great as usual.
Tom Richards, BA, CCLS
Child Life
Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital
“Leprechauns, Thanks for the perfect cookies, they were yummy and just the right size”—11 year old patient who couldn’t go Trick or Treating on Halloween but enjoyed celebrating in his room with Halloween cookies donated by The Leprechaun Foundation.
Erin Whipple, MA, CCLS
Manager – Child Life and Education
MetroHealth Medical Center
Sara’s Ride...
By Debbie DiBlasi – Hospital & Wish Chairperson
That recent phone call came on a Wednesday, from a hospice social worker with a frantic request. One of her patients, a 10-year-old girl named Sara Hudson, was dying. Sara very much wanted to go to Mama Santa's in Little Italy with her family and friends. When asked why she had wanted to go to Mama Santa’s, her mom said because her grandparents would take her there after chemotherapy when she was feeling good enough to eat, and pasta and meatballs were her favorite. More…
Musical Magic...
By Debbie DiBlasi – Hospital & Wish Chairperson
I received a call from Cara Foster, she’s one of the newest Child Life workers at Rainbow Babies’ and Children's Hospital. She had a young man on the transplant list. He was waiting for four organs and was always in the hospital. The staff had come to know him and his passion for the guitar. More…
Thanks to All Who Made this Year’s Night at the Races a Galloping Success...
A good time was had by all who attended this year’s 5th Annual Night at the Races at the Holiday Inn on Rockside Road. Take a look at all the photos of all the fun!
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