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WELCOME
CHANGES This spring, CHKD completed a much-anticipated, year-long redesign of the entrance, lobby and the hospital’s first floor walkways implemented to improve patient access and traffic flow. These welcome changes increased the number of accessible parking spaces; improved patient check-in, drop-off and pick-up; and created a warm and inviting welcome to Virginia’s only freestanding children’s hospital. 1
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Down the hall, a path of fish shapes on the floor leads patients to hospital admissions and central elevators, while interactive displays inform and delight patients and visitors. 1. Back row from left: CHKD’s Healthy Bear, Ted Grell, chairman of Children’s Health Foundation; John Matson, president of TowneBank Norfolk; Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim, Jim Dahling, president and CEO of CHKD Health System; Bob Aston, chairman and CEO of TowneBank, Town E. Bear. Front row from left: Micah Anderson, Faith Bohrer, Sarah Thorpe, Mariah Anderson, Jackson Hartman, Jazmyen Randall, Tymaya Randall, Lianna Anderson. 2. Video-projected fish swim around the feet of patients in CHKD’s interactive fish pond floor. 3. A new video wall displays hospital information and event updates, and will soon include a touch-screen feature and hospital directory. PHOTOGRAPHY BY
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Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Eric Lusher