MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children's Hospital

11/28/2025

If you feel inspired to donate new toys, games, books, or activities to the kids at MHBBCH this holiday season, our wonderful local partners are making it easy. Each store has MHBBCH wish lists and donation bins ready for your gifts:

🧸 Treehouse Toys Portland – Locations in Portland and Biddeford
🧩 Diversions Puzzles & Games - South Portland – Locations in South Portland, Portsmouth & Somersworth, NH
📖 Sherman's Maine Coast Bookshop – Locations in Bar Harbor, Boothbay Harbor, Damariscotta, Falmouth, Freeport, Portland, Rockland, Topsham, and Windham

You can also find donation guidelines and online shopping options on our website: https://bit.ly/4fUeuMg.

Thank you for supporting our patients and local businesses this holiday season! 💙

11/27/2025

This Thanksgiving, we’re overflowing with gratitude for YOU—our incredible community of donors, partners and supporters. 💖 Your generosity and dedication fuel our mission, helping us provide life-changing care to countless children in need.

To our amazing care teams, employees and volunteers: your compassion and unwavering commitment bring hope and comfort to young patients and their families every single day. 💕

Together, we’re making a profound difference. Thank you, , for being such an essential part of this journey. Wishing you all a Thanksgiving filled with love and gratitude! 💗

11/25/2025

With generous support from our friends at the Maine Credit Union League, MHBBCH has expanded its efforts to assist families experiencing food insecurity through the recent purchase of a refrigerator and freezer. Located in the hospital's Atrium and stocked with meals from Wayside Food Programs, patient families are welcome to help themselves to nutritious meals, allowing them one less concern during their child's hospitalization. We are grateful for the opportunity to further support the health and well-being of families in our care. 💙

11/21/2025

We're excited to see how this grant funding will help improve children's health in our communities!

The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will loop the hospital system into a pediatric clinical trials network that spans 17 other states.

11/20/2025

MaineHealth Pediatrics South Portland and Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast have opened new outpatient donor milk dispensary. Learn all about it in this story from NEWS CENTER Maine.

Families interested in purchasing donor milk at MaineHealth Pediatrics and Young Adult Medicine South Portland can contact 207-661-3512.

11/19/2025

Now through December, our helpful friends at Ace Hardware are making the season brighter for kids at MHBBCH! 🤩 When you shop at participating Ace Hardware locations, you’ll have the opportunity to round up your purchase to support the kids in our care. Every donation makes a difference! Please be sure to thank their friendly staff for their unwavering support for our young patients. 👏

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

11/17/2025

MaineHealth’s pediatric congenital heart program allows the region’s youngest patients to stay close to home for life-saving cardiac procedures. A focus on collaboration and national benchmarking with other pediatric congenital heart programs has resulted in second-to-none care at MaineHealth Maine Medical Center Portland in partnership with MHBBCH. Check out this story from the 2025 Annual Report: https://bit.ly/4nWUqwp.

11/14/2025

Luca, a former patient at MHBBCH, turned his experience into something truly inspiring. Wanting to give back, he came up with not one, not two, but three creative fundraising ideas:
🍋 A lemonade & iced tea stand
🍪 A bake sale
🧼 And handmade soap sales!

Thanks to his incredible effort and big heart, Luca raised an amazing $550 to support the kids in our care. 💙

👏 Thank you, Luca, for your kindness, creativity and generosity!

Feeling inspired? You can make a difference too! Host your own DIY fundraiser—whether it’s a classic craft fair, a car wash, or something totally unique like donating your birthday. The possibilities are endless! 🥳 Get started at https://bbch.org/diy

11/08/2025

A patient’s family nominated Madison, a nurse at MHBBCH, for a DAISY award following her care of their toddler during a three-month hospital stay. The family credits Madison with above-and-beyond support throughout his illness and said she created a safe atmosphere that allowed them to share how they felt about returning to the hospital where their son began his life in the neonatal intensive care unit two years ago.

“Madison listened with great compassion as I shared the difficulty of being back in the same hospital where our son spent his first month of life, once again facing many unknowns. It was the first time since our admission that I felt I could speak plainly about everything we had experienced — Madison offered a sense of ease that I can still feel to this day.”

Madison’s nominator went on to say, “She listened to us when we had questions after we met with providers to discuss complex medical information and sought answers when we needed more guidance. She comforted us when it all felt like too much. We’ll forever be grateful to Madison and the team at BBCH for providing the best care.”

The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses was created to recognize and honor the compassionate care nurses provide every day to the patients they serve. It is celebrated in over 5,400 healthcare facilities and nursing schools in 34 countries.

Congratulations, Madison!

11/05/2025

Let’s share some hype for our Extra Lifers as we head into GAME WEEK 2025!!! We’d like to recognize and thank our dedicated Extra Lifers for their year-round gaming to support MHBBCH! Please join us in cheering them on as they grow their $715,290 fundraising total for our hospital! 🎮🎲♟️🃏🎯🎳🧩

Extra Life is a program of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals (and MHBBCH is your local CMN Hospital) centered around gaming: board games, video games, any game! Visit bbch.org/ExtraLife for more info, or join us at . Special thanks to PTC, our Local Hero Sponsor of BBCH Extra Life!

11/03/2025

Our tiniest patients got to play dress up this Halloween thanks to the March of Dimes. Thank you for bringing some holiday joy to our NICU families!

10/31/2025

🎃 Shoutout to our incredible MHBBCH staff and care team members who brought Halloween magic to the kids in our care! 👻 Dressed in their Halloween best, they delivered treats, stickers and smiles to patients in their rooms. 🍬🍭

Special thanks to team members from:
🧡 Rehabilitation Services
💜 Spiritual Care
💙 Pediatric Nursing Leadership
🖤 Security
🧡 Regulatory/Decedent Affairs
💜 Child Life
💙 Pediatric Residents
🖤 Care Coordination
🧡 MCCP Clinical

Your time, creativity and compassion made the day unforgettable for our patients and families. 🤩

Happy Halloween,