{"id":18108,"date":"2024-02-16T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/brightening-the-hospital-experience-with-the-friends-of-jack\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:14:49","slug":"brightening-the-hospital-experience-with-the-friends-of-jack","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/news\/brightening-the-hospital-experience-with-the-friends-of-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"A Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Friends of Jack ilumina a experi\u00eancia hospitalar em colabora\u00e7\u00e3o com os especialistas certificados em vida infantil da Southcoast Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Estes ursos s\u00e3o financiados pelo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofjack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Amigos de Jack<\/a> no Charlton Memorial e no St. Luke's Hospitals. Luke. Durante um momento dif\u00edcil, estes ursos, juntamente com as suas capas e m\u00e1scaras de super-her\u00f3is, fizeram maravilhas para trazer alguma felicidade aos nossos doentes pedi\u00e1tricos e aos seus cuidadores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke's tem duas fant\u00e1sticas especialistas certificadas em vida infantil, Kara Levoshko e Molly Johnson, que guiam os nossos pacientes mais jovens atrav\u00e9s de experi\u00eancias m\u00e9dicas no hospital, antes da cirurgia ou mesmo durante uma estadia nocturna. Com o apoio e financiamento da Friends of Jack Foundation, o Departamento de Vida Infantil conseguiu expandir os servi\u00e7os e contratar pessoal adicional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"O nosso papel como especialistas em vida infantil \u00e9 ajudar a normalizar o ambiente hospitalar para os nossos doentes e as suas fam\u00edlias\", afirmou Molly Johnson. \"Podemos ajudar a preparar estes doentes para que saibam o que esperar e oferecer distrac\u00e7\u00f5es durante procedimentos desconfort\u00e1veis, como a administra\u00e7\u00e3o de uma intravenosa. Ao integrar a brincadeira no hospital, ajudamos os doentes e as suas fam\u00edlias a lidar com situa\u00e7\u00f5es m\u00e9dicas e tentamos tornar a sua experi\u00eancia o mais agrad\u00e1vel poss\u00edvel enquanto c\u00e1 est\u00e3o.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-southcoast-health-and-the-friends-of-jack-foundation-have-been-close-partners-since-the-new-bedford-based-non-profit-was-established-in-2019\">A Southcoast Health e a Friends of Jack Foundation t\u00eam sido parceiros pr\u00f3ximos desde que a organiza\u00e7\u00e3o sem fins lucrativos sediada em New Bedford foi criada em 2019. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Friends of Jack foi criada por Jill Fearons para homenagear o not\u00e1vel percurso m\u00e9dico do seu filho Jack. Jack, que tem agora 12 anos de idade, esteve a certa altura em suporte de vida durante seis semanas, tendo-lhe sido dadas cinco por cento de hip\u00f3teses de sobreviv\u00eancia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Os m\u00e9dicos e a equipa do St. Luke's Hospital desempenharam um papel fundamental nos cuidados de Jack e na sua subsequente recupera\u00e7\u00e3o. Os Fearons quiseram oferecer as mesmas oportunidades que a sua fam\u00edlia teve \u00e0s pessoas da Grande New Bedford, especialmente \u00e0s fam\u00edlias carenciadas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"A minha fam\u00edlia \u00e9 aben\u00e7oada por termos os meios que me permitiram largar tudo durante a doen\u00e7a do Jack\", disse Fearons. \"Muitas fam\u00edlias da nossa comunidade n\u00e3o t\u00eam esse mesmo luxo e, por isso, cri\u00e1mos a funda\u00e7\u00e3o para ajudar a tornar a experi\u00eancia de todos t\u00e3o boa quanto poss\u00edvel.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atualmente, as impress\u00f5es digitais da Friends of Jack Foundation podem ser encontradas em quase todos os locais do St. Luke's onde uma crian\u00e7a recebe cuidados, e o seu apoio tem tido um impacto positivo profundo na experi\u00eancia das crian\u00e7as da nossa comunidade que precisam de procurar cuidados m\u00e9dicos para um ferimento ou doen\u00e7a, e dos seus familiares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Jill \u00e9 uma grande defensora dos Servi\u00e7os de Vida Infantil e ter o apoio da Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Friends of Jack \u00e9 fant\u00e1stico\", disse Kara Levoshko. \"Com a ajuda deles, temos muitos recursos adicionais para expandir nosso programa e fornecer servi\u00e7os a pacientes pedi\u00e1tricos que talvez n\u00e3o pud\u00e9ssemos ajudar sem eles.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A funda\u00e7\u00e3o fornece alguns dos brinquedos, livros para colorir e outras actividades que os especialistas em vida infantil utilizam ao longo do ano para ajudar a tornar a experi\u00eancia hospitalar menos traum\u00e1tica para os doentes. De facto, nalgumas circunst\u00e2ncias, se o seu filho tiver uma interven\u00e7\u00e3o cir\u00fargica programada, \u00e9 poss\u00edvel que ele se dirija ao bloco operat\u00f3rio num carro a pilhas fornecido pelos Friends of Jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trabalhando em estreita colabora\u00e7\u00e3o com a Manfredi Foundation, a funda\u00e7\u00e3o tamb\u00e9m fornece fronhas feitas \u00e0 medida para as crian\u00e7as na unidade de internamento pedi\u00e1trico e gorros tricotados \u00e0 m\u00e3o para os rec\u00e9m-nascidos no departamento de maternidade. Estes pequenos toques podem fazer uma grande diferen\u00e7a para os doentes pedi\u00e1tricos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Steve e Christine Manfredi t\u00eam sido parceiros fant\u00e1sticos para n\u00f3s e para a Southcoast Health\", explicou Fearons. \"A Christine faz todas estas almofadas e chap\u00e9us maravilhosos \u00e0 m\u00e3o e entrega-os como um rel\u00f3gio.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-together-southcoast-health-child-life-services-and-the-friends-of-jack-foundation-are-making-tangible-changes-to-improve-the-physical-mental-and-emotional-health-of-children-in-our-communities\">Juntos, a Southcoast Health, a Child Life Services e a Friends of Jack Foundation est\u00e3o a fazer mudan\u00e7as tang\u00edveis para melhorar a sa\u00fade f\u00edsica, mental e emocional das crian\u00e7as nas nossas comunidades.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Temos a sorte de ter parceiros dedicados como a fam\u00edlia Fearons e a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Friends of Jack, que garantem que temos os recursos para prestar cuidados excepcionais \u00e0 nossa comunidade\", disse Ethan Kehoe, Senior Advancement Officer da Southcoast Health. Luke's. \"Estamos gratos pela sua generosidade e apoio cont\u00ednuos ao programa de Especialistas em Vida Infantil no St. Luke's. Gra\u00e7as aos Friends of Jack, muitas fam\u00edlias da nossa regi\u00e3o t\u00eam beneficiado destes cuidados especializados.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Para saber mais sobre a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Friends of Jack, visite o seu s\u00edtio Web em <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofjack.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.friendsofjack.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clicar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/childrens-health-pediatrics\/child-life-specialists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aqui<\/a> para saber mais sobre o Programa de Vida Infantil da Southcoast Health.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4608,"template":"","categories":[1232],"class_list":["post-18108","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brightening the Hospital 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