Fact: Childhood obesity is the No. 1 public health issue facing the United States today.

Fact: CHKD has the area’s only pediatric weight management program.

Fact: CHKD has the area’s only pediatric sports medicine program.

Investing in a Healthy Future begins with CHILDREN

Because fitness runs in the family, the RunWalk for the Kids is a community-wide project designed to encourage exercise and healthy lifestyles in families and children. The event is a project of The King's Daughters to benefit Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters.

Each year, CHKD provides high-quality medical care to more than 250,000 local children. CHKD's experts are concerned with the alarming rates of childhood obesity in this community. Lack of exercise plays a big role in childhood obesity, but the RunWalk for the Kids can help in two ways. First, all the funds raised by the event will go to support CHKD and its special programs for children. Secondly, children and families are encouraged to participate in the RunWalk together. We even have a special family rate along with Hampton Roads' first children's marathon training program to help young athletes prepare for the big day.

Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
CHKD is the only facility of its kind in Virginia that serves the medical and surgical needs of children throughout greater Hampton Roads, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. The not-for-profit hospital was built in 1961 by The King's Daughters. Today, CHKD provides care to approximately 250,000 children each year as inpatients and outpatients, addressing routine and complex illnesses, injuries and chronic conditions.

The King’s Daughters opened the doors of Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in 1961 and continues its support today with fund-raising, volunteering and advocacy. A not-for-profit organization with approximately 1,000 members throughout Hampton Roads, The King's Daughters continue to raise funds, friends, and awareness for CHKD. In recent years, these funds have been used to purchase a highly-sophisticated pediatric ambulance that brings children from all over the region to CHKD, ventilators for the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, medical cribs for use throughout the hospital and a high-tech therapy pool for use in physical therapy and rehabilitation. The organization also supports two important initiatives on an ongoing basis: the hospital's child abuse and nursing scholarship programs.