Programs
House of Hope: a transient home for children with cancer where patients stay with their families for free whilst awaiting treatment or outpatient follow-up. The facility used to be an old dorm inside Southern Philippines Medical Center premises and renovated through the efforts of Rotary Club of Waling Waling Davao to offer a 7-bedroom transient home for the children and their caregivers. In return for their stay, parents help keep the place clean and homey for the children. Patches of Green, another charity organization assisted in further refurbishing the home. DCCFI oversees the daily operations together with the Pediatric Oncology Team and Southern Philippines Medical Center.
Child Life Program: this is a hospital based program by Kythe Inc which aims to uplift the spirits of chronically ill patients and strengthen hope for patients and families. Its activities include medical play to distract patients from painful procedures, story telling, playroom and bedside activities, educational field trips and Celebrate Life parties.
The St Jude/NUH-Davao Twinning partnership: St Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world-premier pediatric oncology center which, together with the National University Hospital in Singapore has committed to improve survival rates of children in Asia by supporting training and increase in capacity of pediatric oncology units with Southern Philippines Medical Center as a pioneer partner site. This is a major project of DCCFI.
Horizon Live: a teleconferencing facility on cure4kids by St Jude for continuing education. Regular conferences between St Jude and NUH are conducted regularly allowing access to referrals to world experts in the field of pediatric oncology.
cure4kids: a pediatric oncology research facility with libraries of free journals, lectures and educational courses to promote research and continuous learning.
POND: DMCPO is a childhood cancer registry and data management tool by St Jude for DMC pediatric oncology patients.
The Pediatric Oncology Nursing Course at SPMC: a five month training module for pediatric oncology nursing at Southern Philippines Medical Center which includes pediatrics (1 month), pediatric ICU (1 month), Children’s Cancer and Blood Diseases Unit (3months). The training modules include didactic lectures, practical teaching and clinical rotations as well the pediatric online course at cure4kids.
