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Starlight Children’s Foundation® brings healing power of play to Memorial Hospital’s pediatric patients through Starlight® Fun Center® unit

Starlight Children’s Foundation® brings healing power of play to Memorial Hospital’s pediatric patients through Starlight® Fun Center® unit

January 13, 2014 | Comments Off on Starlight Children’s Foundation® brings healing power of play to Memorial Hospital’s pediatric patients through Starlight® Fun Center® unit

GULFPORT, Miss (01/09/14) – Memorial Hospital recently received a Starlight Fun Center mobile entertainment unit containing the latest gaming system that rolls bedside in hospitals to provide distractive entertainment and therapeutic play for pediatric patients. The unit was donated by Starlight’s Global Office.  For children facing surgery, enduring long outpatient treatments or fighting loneliness after hospital visiting hours have ended, Starlight Fun Center units provide a comforting break and important distraction. Nurses, physicians, Child Life Specialists and parents report back to Starlight that the system greatly improves the experience of hospitalization for their children. When Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf
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