The Ronald McDonald Family Room brings the warmth and comfort of the Ronald McDonald House to Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Located on the fourth floor, the room offers a place for family members to grab a quick snack, rest, or even do a load of laundry.
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The room is available to all adult family members of hospitalized children and is open from 9 AM to 9 PM each day. For more information, please contact the Family Room at (401) 444-6085.
Edward ‘Little Ed’ Holewiak III
The Holewiak family of Somerset, Massachusetts, was devastated when their son, Ed, suffered a seizure and collapsed into an irreversible coma. Seizures were not new to 16-year-old ‘Little Ed’ but this one ended tragically. Grief-stricken and heart-broken, the Holewiak family doesn’t recall much about the family’s week-long, emotional stay at the Ronald McDonald House.
The family searched for a meaningful way to memorialize Little Ed and to demonstrate their affection and thankfulness to the House. The idea for a bike run seemed natural since there had always been a few motorcycles around while Little Ed was growing up.
The Holewiak family organized their first memorial bike run in 2003. Since then, it developed into a two-day event and cumulatively raised more than $240,000 for the House.