The Toy Foundation has awarded $380,000 to twenty youngsters’s hospitals and well being methods that cater to under-resourced communities as a part of its 2024 Youngsters’s Hospital Play Grants program. As The Toy Affiliation’s philanthropic arm, The Toy Basis will fund progressive play remedy that can profit greater than 240,000 youngsters in want.
Play remedy tasks enhance the care, well-being, and therapy outcomes of hospitalized youngsters. In response to latest analysis by the Hope for Henry Basis, entry to play elevates the general affected person expertise by 98%. Hospitals often depend on exterior funding or donations to offer play remedy tasks. The Toy Basis’s Youngsters’s Hospital Play Grants program is designed to assist hospitals provide this integral a part of the holistic pediatric care mannequin.
This system helps hospitals through which 50% or extra of its sufferers depend on Medicaid. This 12 months, the play tasks embrace arts and crafts applications, sensory toy stations, and playroom and ready room upgrades that hospitals will full by the tip of the 12 months.
The 2024 Youngsters’s Hospital Play Grants recipients embrace:
- Adventhealth Tampa — Tampa, Florida
- Advocate Youngsters’s Hospital — Oak Brook, Illinois
- Arkansas Youngsters’s — Little Rock, Arizona
- Carilion Youngsters’s — Roanoke, Virginia
- Youngsters’s Specialised Hospital — Mountainside, New Jersey
- Youngsters’s Well being Basis — Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma
- Youngsters’s Hospital at Montefiore — Bronx, New York
- CHRISTUS Youngsters’s — San Antonio, Texas
- Covenant Youngsters’s Hospital — Saginaw, Michigan
- El Paso Youngsters’s Hospital Basis — El Paso, Texas
- Elizabeth Seton Youngsters’s Heart — Yonkers, New York
- Joe DiMaggio Youngsters’s Hospital — Hollywood, Florida
- Johns Hopkins All Youngsters’s Basis — Saint Petersburg, Florida
- La Rabida Youngsters’s Hospital — Chicago, Illinois
- Le Bonheur Youngsters’s Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee
- Maimonides Medical Heart — Brooklyn, New York
- MemorialCare Miller Youngsters’s & Ladies’s Hospital Lengthy Seaside — Lengthy Seaside, California
- Texas Youngsters’s Hospital — Houston, Texas
- The Bernard & Millie Ducker Youngsters’s Hospital at Albany Medical Heart — Albany, New York
- Valley Youngsters’s Hospital — Madera, California
“Play has a profound influence on a toddler’s therapeutic journey throughout a hospital keep, offering bodily, emotional, and academic advantages that you simply can not get from medication,” says Pamela Mastrota, Govt Director at The Toy Basis. “We’re proud to develop the Play Grants program with a 3rd annual distribution of grants that can assist extra hospitals and pediatric sufferers by giving them entry to toys, artwork, and different play therapies to assist enhance youngsters’s coping abilities and medical outcomes.”
Since 2021, the Youngsters’s Hospital Play Grants program has helped enhance pediatric care by practically 40 play tasks at Youngsters’s Hospital Affiliation member hospitals. For extra details about this system, or The Toy Basis’s partnership and monetary assist from Beacon Media Group and VTech Electronics North America, go to toyfoundation.org.
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