Patients and Hospital Staff Enjoy Terror-ific Halloween Fun at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

Contained in the spook-tacular celebration at Lucile Packard Youngsters’s Hospital Stanford

This Halloween, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford conjured a cauldron of pleasure and thrills for its younger sufferers and the complete Stanford Medication neighborhood. Medical doctors, nurses, therapists, hospital employees, and volunteers all joined forces to make sure that the annual Trick-or-Deal with Path delivered the “BOOst” wanted for a frightfully enjoyable day!

Trick-or-Deal with Path

Reworking the Dawes Backyard right into a magical Halloweentown, this 12 months’s Trick-or-Deal with Path boasted over 50 whimsical cubicles, spanning a wide selection of enchanting themes from Disney Villains and Sesame Avenue to Barbie and even this 12 months’s hit, KPop Demon Hunters. With round 300 collaborating hospital employees, the backyard was abuzz with exercise and pleasure. Younger sufferers, their households, and Stanford Youngsters’s employees in fashionable costumes like Disney characters from Inside Out and Toy Story, and beloved favorites like superheroes, Ninja Turtles, and princes and princesses, roamed the competition with glowing smiles. Even the beloved Packard Paws canine of Stanford Youngsters’s joined in, delighting guests as sweet characters.

Each native and out-of-town households appreciated the day’s escapism, however none extra so than the sufferers themselves. Excited to don her cow costume, Annie Vo navigated the Halloween path along with her IV pole, delighting within the festivities alongside her nurse. “I actually needed to put on my cow outfit and love trick-or-treating, however I couldn’t be dwelling to do it right this moment. I’m so grateful the hospital organized this occasion for sufferers like me whereas making certain our well being isn’t compromised.”

Bringing Halloween magic indoors

For these unable to go to the out of doors journey, Child Life and Creative Arts specialists and care groups delivered over 200 Halloween deal with luggage, bursting with toys, coloring books, and snacks, on to affected person rooms, together with particular deliveries to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the intermediate intensive care unit, the pediatric dialysis center, and the Emergency Department.

Contained in the NICU, the Underneath the Sea theme took middle stage, the place nurses dressed newborns as charming little mermaids, jellyfish, scuba divers, and lobsters. NICU nurse Laura de Freitas shared, “Seeing our tiniest ones expertise their first Halloween in such a singular manner is heartwarming. Celebrating each small and massive milestones with our sufferers is really particular.”

Extending the spooky spirit past the hospital, almost 30 Stanford Medicine Children’s Health clinics participated in a pumpkin-decorating contest, additionally themed Underneath the Sea. Inventive groups painted and bedazzled pumpkins, vying for the coveted title of most fa-boo-lous.

For over 30 years, this annual celebration has supplied a beloved escape for youngsters and households, providing consolation, a way of normalcy, and a hauntingly good time, whatever the challenges confronted within the hospital.