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Tree House: A Place for Families

When your child is in the hospital, fighting for life, the last thing you want to do is leave at night and make a long drive home. But when you don't live near the hospital and don't have a place to stay, sleep, even just take a shower, what are you to do?

Too many parents of children in Tacoma General’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Mary Bridge’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) face this dilemma.

MultiCare has offered family housing to out-of-area families for years. But with only 12 apartments, our old housing complex simply couldn't accommodate all the parents who live out of the area and need a place to stay to be close to their child.

Tree House: A Place for Families will help to change that.

Tree House—named to commemorate the important role Festival of Trees plays in making this project a reality—is MultiCare’s new family housing complex located in the historic Frances Apartments at the corner of 4th and I Streets.

Tree House offers more space for families, as well as a host of other amenities that our current family housing lacks, including:

• 43 sleep rooms, most with two queen beds
  
• Private bathrooms
• Telephone, cable and internet in sleep rooms
• Coin operated laundry facilities
• Family Resource Room
  
• Comfortable living room with big screen TV
• Communal kitchen and dining room
• Playroom – provides a space for parents to play with their other children
  

During one of the most traumatic times a family can face, family housing is a true gift that touches lives in a most meaningful way. Thank you for your ongoing support to ensure that Tree House continues to offer parents and families a nurturing, restful environment that lets them focus all of their energies on their beloved child.