Child Life Specialists help children and their parents cope with their hospital experiences. Through health education and medical play, children can learn about their illnesses and injuries and the medications and procedures that will help them to heal. Child Life Specialists also talk with you to make sure you understand everything that is happening—and to get you additional help when you need it.

A calendar of Child Life activities is posted in each patient room. For more information—including tips that you can use to help prepare your child for a trip to the hospital—please visit the more detailed Child Life Services page.