The Jackson L. Graves Foundation funds numerous projects. Currently, we’re partnering with the Arkansas Children's Hospital to:

• Provide toys, books, clothes, toiletries and other items for infants and toddlers, as well as their families.


• Funding for research into recurring conditions that cause long term hospital stays for infants.


• Funding of specialized training for nursing care of long term infant patients.


• Purchase of special equipment needed for long term NICU patients and families.


• Creation of resource library for parents and families of hospitalized infants.

The Jackson L. Graves Foundation is also helping to fund a longer term project at the Arkansas Children's Hospital. This project is for the dedication of space and staffing for a "Transitional Care Unit", or at least an area of private patient rooms, for long-term, critically ill infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital. Specifically, the plan is to create an updated model of care to
provide individualized, family-centered care, including:

• Specialized care for infants with complex conditions, such as babies with chronic lung disease, with longer term technology needs (oxygen, feeding tubes, etc.), and with complex surgical conditions.


• Accounting for prolonged need for family accommodations and care, including creation of a dedicated area for these babies, and ultimately attaining the goal of individual rooms for each of these babies.


• Staffing of primary and secondary care nurses assigned to each baby to create stability/familiarity in care of each infant.


• Creating a Family Centered Care Program involving graduate parents, local churches as partners, and special events.

The Jackson L. Graves Foundation recently worked with Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville to fund the completion of their milk lab with the addition of two waterless milk warmers as well as a recliner to aid parents in Kangaroo Care.  We have also partnered with Willow Creek Women’s Hospital in Northwest Arkansas to provide CD players and classical music for each bedside as well as a new implementation of a noise monitoring system for the NICU.