11 | Methodist Magazine
METHODIST HOSPITAL AND METHODIST HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES PARTNER TO BRING CHEER HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT: To help make the holidays feel more festive, we incorporate holiday gift wrapping into our patients’ occupational therapy. Not only does it help patients work towards their goals of getting back home, but it also brings some of their holiday traditions to them in the hospital. We’ll ask our patients’ family members to bring items in to wrap and even our nurses bring gifts for their loved ones. It’s really fun and the patients love it!” -Chelsea Real (OT), Jenifer Stein (RN), and Elizabeth Cruz (OT), Inpatient Rehab, Methodist Hospital “We try to keep the spirit of Christmas alive on 5N. We love to decorate our unit for the holidays to make patients and families feel at home when they’re not in the comfort of their own. It’s important for us for our patients to know they’re with family with us even though they may not be able to be at home with theirs.” -Arlene Vallego, Clinical Nurse, 5N Methodist Hospital
