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When Lesha Chapman first learned she would need to travel from Huntington, West Virginia to Pittsburgh for a liver transplant evaluation at UPMC Montefiore, her thoughts immediately turned to the unknown. Navigating the logistics of a five-hour trip, time away from home, and the weight of a serious medical diagnosis

Beginning May 1, 2026, Family House will be making adjustments to its Uber transportation services as part of ongoing efforts to best allocate resources and continue serving the greatest number of guests in need. Under this updated structure, roundtrip Uber transportation arranged by Family House will be available ONLY for

When Carla Sueta and her husband, Christer Andersson, arrived in Pittsburgh all the way from Asheville, North Carolina in September of 2025, they were stepping into the unknown. Neither had ever been to the city before, and the reason for their visit made the unfamiliar surroundings even more daunting. Christer

For more than a decade starting in 2015, Ivan and Kayla Hall’s lives have been shaped by a long, often difficult medical journey. Their journey brought them to Pittsburgh, and to Family House, where they found not only comfort and care, but a true community. Kayla was first diagnosed with

On August 2, 2022, Henry Wolfe, then 18-years-old, experienced a life-altering event that changed his family’s world forever. He was life-flighted to Allegheny General Hospital after suffering an anoxic brain injury and was unresponsive. Doctors were uncertain if he would survive, and even less certain if he could ever function

https://youtu.be/I-1Nr0GWrl8 When Katie Fitzpatrick called her father, Bill Fitzpatrick, from Pittsburgh in March 2024, the fear in her voice is something her father will never forget. At the time, Katie was a junior at the University of Pittsburgh, far from home and suffering from severe abdominal pain. Without hesitation, Bill