60,000 Get-Well Cards

Nationwide Children's Hospital logoLast year 20,000 parents, family members, classmates and friends used the Nationwide Children’s Hospital web site to send get-well cards to patients.

Family and friends of patients can go to the Nationwide Children’s site and in a few steps select a card format, optionally upload a photo, and then enter a personal message. Once they enter the room number of the patient, the resulting card is printed in color by the hospital’s print shop and brought to the room of the patient. It’s not at all unusual to see patient’s bulletin boards and even room doors lined with dozens of well-wishes. It makes the hospital a friendlier place.

In the four years since we developed this unique system, more than 60,000 cards have been generated along with many grateful notes to the hospital staff for providing this service.

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