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Lindsay de Borba
Social Services Spread Holiday Cheer
Fernando Hurtado, a social work resource coordinator at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, organized a toy drive to ensure that every patient in the hospital receives a special gift this holiday season.
Summer Fun for Packard Children’s Patients
Children and adolescents who have been faced with cancer set aside their worries to have some fun.
Second annual Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing
The celebration of Pediatric Nurses Week kicked off when more than 200 nurses were recognized at the second annual Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing.
National Volunteer Week
It’s National Volunteer Week! This week we celebrate our very special volunteers, like reading buddy Lisa Cole, who dedicate their valuable time, effort and talent to help fulfill our hospital’s mission to provide the best nurturing care for our patients. Thank you to our hundreds of volunteers for your extraordinary contributions!
Homes With a Heart
Since 2000, Jon and Danielle Mewes have opened their home to non-local families of patients being treated at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Guests who are unable to be accommodated by the Ronald McDonald House are invited to stay in the Meweses’ vacant, on-site cottage for free, as long as needed.
On the Road With Care-A-Van
Since 1998, volunteers of the Care-A-Van for Kids program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have helped make life-saving treatment and medical care accessible to seriously ill children without reliable means of transportation.
Sock Monkey Volunteers
For almost 40 years, the “monkey toy ladies” have met every Monday morning at the Los Altos Senior Center to make stuffed sock monkeys for the patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
The Nurturing Power of Pets
Three times per month, volunteers from Furry Friends Pet Therapy Services bring their dogs to… Read more »
Cuddling Comfort
Pat Rice and Claire Fitzgerald are husband and wife psychologists who have dedicated their time… Read more »
