Although their numbers continue to grow, medically fragile children have no voice, limited options, and very little hope.

Escalating Statistics Outpace Solutions
During her years as a pediatric nurse, Laura Moore recognized an alarming trend. Medical technology now saves children who would not have previously survived. However, many of these same patients were staying in the hospital for months and years.

Society is still unprepared to embrace medically fragile children in a way that makes their lives worth living because:

• The infrastructure to support their extraordinary care does not exist;
• Burdened by caring for a chronically ill child, families must search and beg for necessary equipment, supplies and treatments to meet their child's needs;
• Many families cannot adequately care for them;
• These children end up being abused, abandoned, placed in foster care, senior adult nursing homes, or live out their lives in hospitals;
• Reaching epidemic proportions, most of us have no idea this tragedy is taking place in our communities, throughout our state, and around the country.

Dream House Story: Beginnings, Ugly Reality, Searching for Answers, Dream Pursuit.