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Disney’s Team Of Heroes To Help Transform Three Central Florida Children’s Hospitals

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Disney’s Team of Heroes initiative that began two years ago will soon be expanding to three Central Florida children’s hospitals

The five-year, $100 million investment brings popular Disney stories to the hospitals, and hopefully a bit of comfort and joy to the patients.

Disney will create interactive play spaces, murals, interactive art, and more to provide distractions during what could be a stressful hospital stay.

Transformations will begin soon at AdventHealth for Children, Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital, and Nemours Children’s Hospital. Disney has worked with patient care experts to design the re-imagined spaces that help create healing experiences that are “distinctly Disney.”

Here’s a look behind the scenes at one of the transformation that Team of Heroes is bringing to hospitals around the country:

Dr. Rajan Wadhawan, senior executive office of AdventHealth for Children:

“At AdventHealth for Children, we see first-hand the joy and reactions that come from patients and families who experience our Walt Disney Pavilion. Bringing that joy can be very important at what otherwise can be a stressful time in our patients’ young lives. Part of the whole-person care we provide is healing the body, mind, and spirit. These transformations will continue to make a positive impact on our patients’ spirits and bring even more comfort and happiness during their time with us.”

Cary D’Ortona, president of Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children:

“Walt Disney World and Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children have been working together to give back to our community since we first opened our doors in the 1980s. Receiving medical care in a hospital setting can feel especially scary and overwhelming for kids. Disney gets right to the heart of helping bring magic to our patients and their families during what is often a difficult time.”

R. Lawrence Moss MD, president and CEO of Nemours Children’s Health System:

“Together, Disney and Nemours Children’s Hospital are brightening the hospital experience for children and families facing serious health issues. Disney is bringing impactful elements into our healthcare space, such as interactive technology. With these new advancements at our fingertips, this program will help us continue providing exceptional care and actively ensure children can be children while they heal.”

Click here to view Disney Parks YouTube video ‘Three Central Fla. Children’s Hospitals & Their Patients to Benefit from Disney Transformations’

 

Source: Walt Disney World News

Bank, Office Building Out; Medical Building In: Redevelopment On The Way In Southeast Denver

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Redevelopment is coming to the corner of Hampden Avenue and Oneida Street in southeast Denver.

A rendering of the planned medical building. (PHOTO CREDIT: Centura Health)

Health care system Centura Health plans to build a 24,000-square-foot medical building at 6900 and 7060 E. Hampden Ave., according to a site-development plan submitted to the city.

Centura, which is the largest health care system in the state, purchased the two parcels, which combined are 1.63 acres, in 2017 and 2018. Acting as Portercare Adventist Health, Centura purchased the 0.41-acre lot at 7060 E. Hampden Ave. in December 2017 for $1.9 million, records show. The lot included a 7,200-square-foot office building with seven tenants.

In December 2018, the health care company purchased the 1.22-acre 6900 E. Hampden Ave. parcel from UMB Bank for $3.34 million. UMB previously operated a branch at the site, but left the building in favor of a new one it built closer to the intersection. It opened there in October.

The former bank has since been demolished, and the office building will follow within a few months, according to Deb Carpenter, Centura’s director of clinic operations. Records indicate that the two-story facility Centura has planned — which will include a freestanding emergency room — will have the address of 7000 E. Hampden Ave.

“Centura was very interested in this area because through some work we did analyzing the area, we realized there really isn’t anything in that area for emergency care,” Carpenter said.

Boulder Associates Architects drew up plans for the new facility, which Carpenter said will open in May 2020.

Denverite reported in May that Councilwoman Kendra Black had been lobbying for a project called “Parkside,” which would have oriented new businesses toward Southmoor Park, located south of Hampden Avenue.

Centura Health is a subsidiary of Florida-based AdventHealth (formerly Adventist Health System) and Catholic Health Initiatives, based in Englewood. The two health systems partnered together to form Centura Health in 1996, which now operates 17 hospitals across Colorado and western Kansas.

Elsewhere in the state, Centura recently paid $30 million for 57.8 acres in Colorado Springs to build a third campus in the city.

 

Source: BusinessDen