Halloween Parade returns to Prisma Health Children’s Hospital
Nearly 200 doctors, nurses, and staff members dress up in elaborate costumes — ensuring the joy of Halloween makes it to each child’s door.
Christy Fink
Healing through expression — new music therapy room opens at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital
Sponsored by the Panda Cares Center of Hope -- the room was made possible in part by the popular restaurant chain Panda Express.
Music therapists with Prisma say the room is designed to reduce a patient’s anxiety, and help them cope with an unfamiliar hospital setting.
Tickets for toys — free holiday market helps families at children’s hospital
The holiday market has been available to families for 16 years now — with every toy donated by local residents.
Free “Healing Hearts Grief Program” offers peer-to-peer therapy for kids, young adults
“I think that’s the cool thing about the group that we have too, is that we kind of provide that space for them. They hear others talking about their experience. If they want to talk about it they can, if they don’t they don’t have to. But then typically by the end we’ll see them be a little more open and willing to talk about it,” says Insley.
Holiday parade makes its way through the halls of Prisma Health Children’s Hospital
“It’s really good because it helps the kids be happy when they’re sick here in the hospital, and helps them have something to look forward to so they aren’t just stuck in the room,” says Mykala Williams, whose daughter is a patient at the children’s hospital.
Prisma Health Children’s Hospital holds “reverse trick-or-treat” Halloween parade
“Whether they are sick or not, they’re still children. So we want to make sure that we’re still celebrating that and we’re taking every opportunity that we can to bring festivities to them,” Fink says,
“Reverse trick-or-treating” at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital brings candy to the kids
Halloween night is usually a fun time for kids to dress up and go trick-or-treating. But patients at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital aren’t often able to participate. Instead, the hospital holds what they call “reverse trick-or-treating” where the candy and costumes come right to the kids.
