Posted In TidalHealth Foundation News on October 24, 2023
Pictured left to right: Tyler Schrock, RRT; Marcy Columna, Manager of Respiratory Care at TidalHealth Nanticoke; Julie Brown, Patient Advocate; MaryAnne Clark, RRT; Dawn Chaffinch, Sitter; Kelli Trice, RRT.
Cold and flu season tends to keep Respiratory Care teams busy, but that didn't stop TidalHealth Nanticoke's Respiratory Care team members from pitching in to support our youngest patients.
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, TidalHealth Nanticoke's Respiratory Care team donated cartfuls of toys to Brooke's Toy Closet at TidalHealth Nanticoke.
Brooke’s Toy Closet is a program at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional and TidalHealth Nanticoke that provides new toys to children in the Emergency Department and Pediatric Units that the children get to keep and take home upon discharge.
The program was named in honor of Brooke Mulford, a young girl who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer, in 2009 at the tender age of 4 years old. After a valiant battle, she passed away in June 2017. Brooke had a vision to give toys to kids in the hospital to make their time there a little easier, and that vision is what sparked the creation of Brooke's Toy Closet.
The TidalHealth Foundation thanks our Seaford Respiratory Care team for supporting Brooke’s Toy Closet and our pediatric patients. Learn more about this program and how you can donate toys.
