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Chemotherapy Room Makeover - Rooms That Rock 4 Chemo

"It all started when four designers responded to a request and offered to donate their time, material,expenses and expertise, to enhance and revamp drab chemotherapy rooms..." -Nancy Ballard, Founder

Mission Statement:

RoomsThatRock4Chemo is a nonprofit organization devoted to creating positive, healing, lovely and uplifting spaces that spiritually, emotionally, and physically support those dealing with challenges to their health. By transforming unimaginative often sterile spaces into vibrant, warm and peaceful environments in collaboration with interior designers, local vendors and facilities that provide treatment, this work of love, compassion and creativity brings the comfort of beauty, peace, and caring to those suffering thus making a real difference in their lives as well as their families and all those involved with their care.

We invite YOU to be a part RoomsThatRock4Chemo.

Please considering making a donation to help us rock upcoming projects in California, Ohio and San Salvador. Go here to donate and be a part of something BIG!

What We Do

RoomsThatRock4Chemo connects interior designers with hospitals and clinics that provide out patient chemotherapy. Since its founding in May 2011, our custom-designed rooms together host over 145,000 patient visits per year in nine facilities and 99 rooms in the USA and San Salvador in El Salvador

How We Began with a simple philanthropic gesture, Nancy Ballard offered to donate her botanical paintings to the dreary chemotherapy rooms in Dr. Hufford’s San Francisco medical office. Dr. Hufford was overjoyed with the artistic gifts of generosity, yet she saw a much bigger future for the project.

In an effort to revamp the chemotherapy rooms in their entirety, Nancy reached out to twenty local interior designers for their professional aid. Within three days, six designers had reacted enthusiastically, volunteering their time and creative efforts for the first RTR4C Project. Since then, talented teams of room revamping designers have been transforming bland spaces into vibrant, warm and colorful environments that evoke positive vibes into the dreary circumstances often experienced in these treatment rooms. These rooms have been completed and are highlighted on our website.

While having treatment, Susan G. Komen told her sister Nancy, "Something needs to be done to these rooms...."
We agree! Please help us rock rooms 4 chemo

2012 Jefferson Award Winner

Our Founder and Executive Director Nancy J. Ballard has been awarded a local Jefferson Award and will be considered nationally. The cameras were there Saturday, December 4, 2011 with Kate Kelly of Channel Five news to film the ten volunteers (including Nancy and her husband Mario) as they transformed the Community Room at Marin Specialty Care in Greenbrae, CA. Now, a renewed, revamped and lovely facility named The Corinne Fuller Room takes it place.