When a family of any child from birth to age 21 suddenly needs a home away from home to be near a hospitalized child, the Ronald McDonald House of the Southwest Charities can help. With 17 furnished suites in the RMHC residence only minutes from University Medical Center and Covenant Children's Hospitals in Lubbock and convenient family rooms inside the hospitals as well support and care for families can be met. Families can devote energy to the love and attention their child needs while food, shelter and other services are being managed for them. No family is ever charged or turned away from RMHC. 100% of all monies raised are used to help the areas of service covered. In Texas 68 counties are covered and many Southeastern New Mexico patients come to Lubbock for medical attention as well.