Remembering Willie Mays
The Stanford Medicine community mourns the loss of Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants legend whose annual holiday visits to Packard Children’s Hospital ensured sick kids were never forgotten.
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Celebrating Volunteers
Get to Know Cedric Wilson, Winner of a Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award
Wilson has dedicated over 8,000 hours, equivalent to nearly 11 full months, to volunteer service. “You’ve got to do something in your spare time…”
Stanford Children’s ‘Baby Whisperer’ Celebrates 24 Years of Comforting and Supporting Infants and Their Parents
Sue Moses is a volunteer cuddler at Stanford Children’s Health and is known to many as the ‘baby whisperer’ because of the way she is able to calm babies.
Stanford Community Answers Call to Confront Food Insecurity
It takes a village to feed a community, especially during a pandemic. The need inspired those at Packard Children’s to introduce a new food support program.
Volunteer Buddies Make us Packard Proud
How a childhood cancer survivor and a retired HR executive spend their free time helping sick kids.
Volunteers Honored for Decades of Service
The 2019 volunteer recognition celebration honored hundreds of volunteers for their service.
New Gift Shop Opens at Packard Children’s
“I want to cut this ribbon in honor of Lucile Packard,” said Roth Auxiliary co-president… Read more »
Packard Children’s volunteer honored with Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award
Esther Ellis gifts her time, more than 4,000 hours, in service to patients and families at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Cuddler Volunteers Recognized as Local Heroes
A story this week from KALW public radio is recognizing a special group of volunteers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford as local heroes: the baby Cuddlers.
A Nurse That Goes Above and Beyond
Many of our nurses at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford volunteer at Camp Heart & Hands — a non-profit that serves children with cancer and their families.
Volunteers Celebrate 40 Years of Making Sock Monkey Toys for Patients
Forty years ago, flyers appeared around town calling on volunteers to join in some “Monkey Business” to benefit young patients.
The Gift of Meals: How Our Pediatric Advocacy Program and a Community Partnership Brightened the Holiday Season
Our Pediatric Advocacy Program, along with some passionate community partners, helped feed hungry children and families over the winter break.
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.
Bob Zimmerman, Volunteer “Cuddler” Wins Visa Volunteer Award
Bob Zimmerman, volunteer “cuddler” at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and a full-time Visa employee, received the Visa Volunteer Award for January-July 2014. As part of his recognition, Visa is donating $5,000 to the hospital in a salute to the work of cuddlers and other volunteers.
Partnership with DreamWorks Animation and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital brightens children’s lives—and the walls of HP
Thanks to a partnership between HP and DreamWorks Animation, pediatric patients had a chance to design artwork that now hangs in HP’s Palo Alto facility.
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.
Local Artist Volunteers Time and Talent to Brighten Children’s Days
Amid the hustle and bustle of the lobby at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, artist Lynne Glendenning is sitting quietly, organizing a colorful array of markers, paints and glitter in preparation for a busy day.
Building Community One Onesie at a Time
Cathy Siciliano’s son William was born at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in 2012. He… Read more »
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 »
