Die Leistungen der Stiftung Chance für das kritisch kranke Kind

We support critically ill children

With your help, Stiftung Chance supports the Children's Hospital Zurich. On behalf of the critically ill children and their families, we thank you for your generosity.

The transport incubator – heart of our Baby Amublance

The transport incubator is indispensable for the care of critically ill premature and newborn babies. The baby ambulance or a helicopter together with a transport incubator are vital for the safe transport of critically ill newborns, whether from the maternity clinic to neonatology or from one hospital to another after birth.

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Baby Ambulance

In 2014, Stiftung Chance financed the state-of-the-art Baby Ambulance, which has since become part of the cityscape in Zurich. It is a mobile intensive care unit that is used daily to transfer critically ill premature and newborn babies from maternity hospitals to the Children's Hospital Zurich. Donations to the Chance Foundation ensure the operation of the baby outpatient clinic.

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Care Team

The Care Team of the Children's Hospital has the difficult task of supporting parents and relatives of critically ill and dying children. The Care Team helps the parents to accompany their child in the last phase of its life and to say goodbye. Its staff supports grieving relatives with their questions about funeral arrangements and in processing what they have experienced.

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Care Counselling Service

Children who are ventilated via a cannula in the windpipe or by means of a face mask should also be allowed to go home. For a smooth transition, parents need to be well prepared. The care counselling service takes on this demanding task.

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Art therapy

A ray of hope in the stressful daily hospital routine: painting, handicrafts, singing or role-playing help critically ill children to switch off, but also to express their feelings and fears. Stiftung Chance pays the salaries of the therapists and all painting and craft materials.

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Nutritional counselling

Critically ill children are usually fed artificially. They often suffer from over- or malnutrition, digestive system disorders, muscle loss and failure to thrive. Nutritional counselling specialized in intensive care medicine in an interdisciplinary setting can improve the nutritional situation of these children. This is intended to prevent nutritional deficiencies, promote the healing process, and shorten the length of stay in the intensive care unit.

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In moments of crisis

Families of critically ill children who find themselves in a stressful situation receive competent and empathetic support from specialists in psychology and social work at the Children's Hospital Zurich. Stiftung Chance compensates the experts for their task.

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Care Counsellers

With exceptionally large numbers of critically ill infants with viral respiratory infections (often RSV) the medical and nursing teams are at their limits. This situation is exacerbated by the already existing shortage of staff. Our care counsellors connect with the families in their stressful situation, integrate them into the processes where possible and support the medical teams in their work.

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Music therapy

The positive effect of music as a form of therapy unfolds especially in neonatology. Premature and newborn babies learn to soothe themselves. For older, critically ill children, music therapy provides a way of expressing themselves and producing sounds. The music therapists are paid by Stiftung Chance.

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Realised projects

Founded in 1999, Stiftung Chance has been able to realize various projects – thanks to the generous support of our donors.