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All Star
Miracle Home comes to Houston
 The
All
Star Miracle Home is coming soon to Houston—it’s an exciting
opportunity for friends of Texas Children’s to help support Children’s
Miracle Network and possibly win a new home in the process. Meritage
Homes is giving away the All Star Miracle Home, constructed entirely
by local vendors and businesses that are generously donating their
time, materials and services, to one lucky raffle winner in January
2007. Twenty thousand raffle tickets will be sold for $100 each, and
proceeds will directly benefit Children’s Miracle Network.
Valued at $500,000 and more than 4,100 square feet, the two-level home
will be fully furnished and landscaped, featuring four bedrooms, 3 ½
baths, a game room, a media room, a detached garage and swimming pool
by Anthony & Sylvan Pools. Once the home is completed in August 2006,
it will be open to the public daily for tours.
Ground breaking for the new home occurs on Tuesday, March 21 at the
future home site in the Spice Ridge neighborhood in Sienna
Plantation. Houston leaders, including John Landon, co-chairman and
CEO of Meritage Homes, Michael J. Pizzitola, South Texas president of
Meritage Homes, and Richard Filip, CEO RE/MAX of Texas, as well as
kids from Children’s Miracle Network will gather for the ceremony.
Every dollar from the raffle benefits Children’s Miracle Network of
the greater Houston area to provide financial relief to families who
are unable to pay their child’s medical costs. Charity care allows
hospitals to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay. Last
year alone, about $21 million in charity care from Children’s Miracle
Network of the greater Houston area helped 15,000 children who
otherwise might not have received the care they needed and deserved.
A perfect example of charity care at work is the
SuperKids Mobile
Pediatric Clinic, which is funded partly by charity care. SuperKids
is a motor coach that transports a
fully equipped medical clinic. The mission of SuperKids is to provide
free primary health care and preventive education to medically
underserved children of Houston and their families. SuperKids
extends pediatric health care into low-income areas of Houston and is
one important way Children’s Miracle Network of the greater Houston
area is helping build a community of healthy children. SuperKids’
mission is to connect children to a “permanent medical home”—usually a
Project Medical Home practice.
Through its three pediatric practices,
Project Medical Home provides
affordable and accessible health care to children regardless of their
ability to pay. More than 15,000 patient visits are recorded annually
at Project Medical Home practices, and SuperKids counts over 18,000
patient visits on its record. Donations to charity care help
underwrite the cost of immunizations, medical equipment, lab fees,
prescription medications, and medical supplies for both of these vital
programs.
To purchase raffle
tickets or to obtain more information about the All Star Miracle Home,
visit
www.allstarmiraclehome.com/houston or call 866-616-2244.
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