ists use play therapy to prepare children
for their surgery experience.
"It's a very kid-friendly environment," said Albanese, "and doesn't seem
like a traditional hospital or OR."
Then patients move to a pre-op holding area, where each bed has a TV and
space for families wait. Each child is assigned a confidential tracking number
during surgery, and parents can check display screens in the waiting area to
see where their child is in the surgical process. Soon after surgery, parents
join their kids in the 12-bed recovery room. The suites are designed to make
the experience of surgery as anxiety-free as possible.
In short, the new facility delivers improvements in every aspect of
patient care.
"Innovation begets innovation," said Albanese. "We can think more broadly,
generate new ideas, and figure out how to make things better for our patients.
We're all very excited."
The Ford Family Surgery Center was built with a lead gift from the Thomas
W. Ford Family and gifts from HEDCO Foundation, Morgan Family Foundation, The
David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Schow Foundation and The Valley
Foundation.
Take a video tour of the new Ford Family Surgery Center at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3AQGzHUiI.
About Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Ranked as one of the nation's top pediatric hospitals by U.S. News & World
Report, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a 272-bed hospital
devoted to the care of children and expectant mothers. Providing pediatric and
obstetric medical and surgical services and associated with the Stanford
University School of Medicine, Packard Children's offers patients locally,
regionally and nationally the full range of health care programs and services,
from preventive and routine care to the diagnosis
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