The Free Care Fund at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh ensures no child is denied medical care. And every year since 1954, KDKA-TV has helped raise money for the Free Care Fund with our annual holiday telethon.
This week, as we get ready for our 72nd annual telethon, we want you to meet some of the children who are alive today thanks to the care they received at UPMC Children’s.
Among them is Elexa White. We first met Elexa in 2017 when she was a student at Seneca Valley High School and was chosen to be the Junior Co-Host of the 64th Annual Free Care Fund Telethon. Since then, she’s graduated from high school and college and is now in medical school…