Ashley HomeStore donated 50 twin-sized bed frames and mattresses; accompanied with their pillows, comforters and sheet sets to the patients and families at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital through its nationwide Hope to Dream initiative. Of those 50 bed sets, 25 were delivered to the Nicklaus Children’s Devonshire Apartments, while the other 25 were individually delivered to underserved families who have been pre-identified by the health system’s social workers.
“We warmly welcome and appreciate Ashley HomeStore’s kind gesture to give our Devonshire Apartments a new look with the donation of twin-sized bed sets,” said Nicklaus Children’s Health System President and CEO, Matthew A. Love. “Sick and healing children need their families’ continual emotional support during the weeks or even months of recovery, and the Devonshire Apartments provide a home away from home where family members can sleep, eat, relax and share experiences with other families in similar situations.”
With Ashley HomeStore’s awaited donation, all twin-sized beds currently at the Devonshire Apartments will be replaced. Located two blocks from the hospital in a safe residential community, the Devonshire Apartments provide families a comfortable, supportive temporary home for patient families coming from distant places. Consisting of two buildings with 20 furnished apartment-styled units, the Devonshire Apartments are fully equipped with kitchens, linens, laundry facilities, housekeeping services, and other amenities. Transportation service to and from the hospital is also provided to the families.
Most families who stay at the Nicklaus Children’s Devonshire Apartments are Floridians who live outside of Miami-Dade County. Of those, twenty percent come from outside Florida; many are from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands. While the average length of stay is three to five days, some families may spend up to three months because of their child’s medical condition.
Learn more about our Devonshire Apartments by visiting
https://www.nicklauschildrens.org/patient-resources/planning-your-visit/hotel-accommodations.
About Nicklaus Children's Health System Where Your Child Matters Most™ (2026)
For more than 75 years, Nicklaus Children's Health System has stood as a beacon of hope for children and families across the state of Florida and beyond. Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children. Nicklaus Children's provides pediatric care across a growing network of hospital and community-based partnerships, including care within NCH North Hospital in Naples, Jupiter Medical Center, select Baptist Health Hospital pediatric emergency units, and Nicklaus Children's Hospital Fort Lauderdale and Nicklaus Children's Hospital Coral Springs each located on the campuses of Broward Health. The hospitals and their network of more than 35 outpatient care locations offer lifesaving care in Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin and Palm Beach counties. outpatient locations include an array of urgent care, pediatric primary care and subspecialty care centers and are either hospital-based or outpatient locations under Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC (NCPS).Providing a pipeline of future physicians and groundbreaking research, Nicklaus Children's is an academic and clinical affiliate of the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nicklaus Children's is home to centers of excellence including the Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children's Orthopedic, Sports Medicine and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children's Neuroscience Institute and Nicklaus Children's Heart Institute. The 474-bed system is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, with many programs routinely ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's also includes a nonprofit physician practice subsidiary with more than 40 pediatric specialties and an ambulatory surgery center. For more information, visit nicklauschildrens.org.