Starlight Site™ Care Rooms
While in the hospital, many seriously ill children spend the bulk of their time in treatment rooms. These rooms are often dreary, intimidating areas in the hospital. Although this is where some of a child’s most difficult, most invasive, and most painful experiences occur, the treatment rooms are often overlooked when patient rooms and other areas of the hospital are renovated.
Starlight Children’s Foundation is currently helping tri-state area hospitals renovate care rooms to generate a more pleasant environment in Pediatric Units. The Starlight Site™ care rooms offer theme room designs for the rooms including: The In My Neighborhood design that recreates an idyllic neighborhood setting of parks, trees and ponds; Oceans, which lays out beaches, oceans and aquatic life; and Sky and Constellations, which offers the expanse of the heavens for a child to gaze at. These rooms all set a mood of calmness, peace and distraction.
Feedback from medical staff, parents, child life personnel and the children themselves strongly indicates a great need to renovate dreary hospital environments. The goal of the Starlight care room is to help calm children’s fears, distract them from their pain and engage them in the treatment process.
There are currently 13 Starlight Care Rooms located in 11 hospitals across the tri-state area at:
- Brookdale University Medical Center (NY)
- Children of Bellevue (NY)
- Children's Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel (NJ)
- Elmhurst Hospital and Medical Center (NY)
- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (NJ)
- Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center (NY)
- The Komansky Center for Children's Health at New York Presbyterian (NY)
- Kravis Children's Hospital at Mt. Sinai – 3 rooms (NY)
- New York Hospital Queens honoring the NY Mets (NY)
- St. Joseph's Children's Hospital (NJ)
- White Plains Medical Center (NY)
Coming Soon!
- Beth Israel Medical Center (NY)
- Bridgeport Hospital (CT)
- Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York
- Goreyb Children's Hospital at Morristown Memorial (NJ)
- Overlook Hospital (NJ)
- St. Mary's Hospital for Children (NY)