Sufferers and Hospital Workers Get pleasure from Terror-ific Halloween Enjoyable at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

Inside the spook-tacular celebration at Lucile Packard Children’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 Medicine group. Doctors, nurses, therapists, hospital employees, and volunteers all joined forces to make sure that the annual Trick-or-Treat Trail delivered the “BOOst” wanted for a frightfully enjoyable day!

Trick-or-Treat Trail

Transforming the Dawes Garden right into a magical Halloweentown, this 12 months’s Trick-or-Treat Trail boasted over 50 whimsical cubicles, spanning a big selection of enchanting themes from Disney Villains and Sesame Street to Barbie and even this 12 months’s hit, KPop Demon Hunters. With round 300 taking part hospital employees, the backyard was abuzz with exercise and pleasure. Young sufferers, their households, and Stanford Children’s employees in widespread costumes like Disney characters from Inside Out and Toy Story, and beloved favorites like superheroes, Ninja Turtles, and princes and princesses, roamed the pageant with glowing smiles. Even the beloved Packard Paws canines of Stanford Children’s joined in, delighting guests as sweet characters.

Both 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 really wanted to wear my cow outfit and love trick-or-treating, but I couldn’t be home to do it today. I’m so grateful the hospital organized this event for patients like me while ensuring our health 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 baggage, 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.

Inside the NICU, the Under the Sea theme took heart 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 experience their first Halloween in such a unique way is heartwarming. Celebrating both small and big milestones with our patients is truly special.”

Extending the spooky spirit past the hospital, practically 30 Stanford Medicine Children’s Health clinics participated in a pumpkin-decorating contest, additionally themed Under the Sea. Creative 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.