INTEGRIS Health Partners with Once Upon a Room, making pediatric patients feel more at home in the hospital.
INTEGRIS Health Children’s at Baptist Medical Center was honored to be the first hospital in Oklahoma to receive a visit from the volunteers at Once Upon a Room.
Once Upon a Room’s mission is to enrich the lives of hospitalized children, teens and infants who are fighting serious illnesses and long-term acute trauma.
Each child’s room is decorated in a theme personally selected for them by their child life specialist. The goal is to make their hospital room feel more like home.
The hospital can be an intimidating place even for adults. So just imagine how unfamiliar and overwhelming it can be for children,” says Madeline Lehman, a certified child life specialist at INTEGRIS Health Children’s. “That’s why we are always looking for additional ways to make the hospital environment more comfortable for children and teens, and Once Upon a Room is certainly helping us do that.”
Local volunteers from Once Upon a Room will continue to work with INTEGRIS Health child life specialists to decorate additional children’s rooms on a weekly basis.
