Cook Children's Medical Center - Bank of America Colonial
by Kate Phillips

On Tuesday, May 16th, PTWA members visited the Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. We joined with children from the inpatient rehab center to decorate the windows in four of their wards with "golfer men"! In addition to being a fun and creative project for us all, it also served as a great rehab exercise for the in-patients, many of whom were still struggling with the movement of their hands and fingers after an operation or accident. In the morning, the children had played "putt putt" with some PGA TOUR Golfers, on a themed putting green set up in the foyer of the hospital by the nurses and helpers. So they already had a grasp of birdies, bogies, and the questionable dress sense of some golfers, as you can see from the photos of their decorations!

Cook Children's Medical Center is designed for the specificphysical and medical needs of children. This includes not only child-appropriate equipment and furnishings, staff trained in child development and playrooms equipped with aquariums, video games, computers and more, but also more than 30 medical specialties to help ill or injured child patients. Cook Children's is licensed for 282 beds, and offers more than 30 pediatric specialties and services. In 2005, 73,000 emergency room patients were treated, 10,000 patients were admitted, 16,700 surgery patients were treated, 47 stem cell/bone marrow transplants were performed and 744 infants were admitted to the Newborn Care Unit. Visit www.Cookchildrens.org for more information.