When parents learn that a child is seriously ill, everything changes. Daily routines are interrupted to travel to distant cities for medical care. Dinners come from hospital cafeterias or vending machines, and the comforts of home are traded for a chair near the bedside of a sick child. Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York helps make life a little easier during these difficult times, allowing parents and families to focus on what really matters: the health and well-being of their child.