What We Do

Since 2005, FAC has been actively involved in developing and enhancing our family-centered care. We play key roles advocating for, advising, and educating our staff and families on a variety of important issues. Some of our group’s most prominent projects have included:

• Providing input for family-friendly features for our hospital Expansion – to help create a comfortable “home away from home” for our patients and families
• Managing the Family Resource Center addition – giving families a place to rest, do research about their child’s condition, conduct business, cook, shower, and sleep
• Helping to bring the onsite Outpatient Pharmacy to life – offering families and staff convenient access to prescription and over-the-counter medications
• Developing a family badging program – making it easier for families to visit their children during an extended hospital stay
• Beginning a safety program – using wrist bracelets with medications and procedure tag alerts
• Interviewing physician leadership and other senior staff positions that directly impact family-centered care
• Helping to develop the new Palliative Care team.

Get Involved

Action is sometimes the best medicine for coping with your child’s diagnosis. If you want to meet like-minded, active men and women who are at different milestones in the same journey, please join us.

To get involved with the FAC, you can become a member and/or serve on one of our committees:

• Membership Committee: Maintains membership, council, and committee rosters
• Family as Faculty Committee: Recruits and trains families to help teach medical students, resident physicians, interns, and staff about caring for a child in the hospital – from the family’s perspective
• Marketing Committee: Promotes council/activities to children and families, as well as the staff and the community

How Can I Join?

Joining the FAC includes an application and an informal interview process. Please download our brochure, fill out the attached application, and either drop it off at the Volunteer Office located in the main lobby or mail it in, and we’ll contact you as soon as possible.

FAC members meet monthly on every fourth Tuesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. But you don’t have to be a member to serve on a committee or participate in a project. Contact us and we’ll be happy to find a perfect place for you.

Family Voices: FAC Newsletter

Family Voices, a newsletter published by the FAC and Nemours staff, is filled with information about hospital projects and initiatives, and helpful health and wellness tips for kids.

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Ask questions or submit story ideas to:

Nancy D’Argenio, Family Voices

(302) 651-6091
nancy.dargenio@nemours.org