Garden Open House

Our hospital just opened the private garden for our OB floor! We are so excited! It is beautiful with trees, plants, green grass (shh, it's fake, but it totally looks and feels real!), a waterfall coming out of a rock wall in the middle of the garden, benches, and a playground area for kids. Banner Gateway was built using evidence based practice, so everything they have done in building it has been proven by evidence to enhance healing. From the outside structure to the rooms inside, everything is focused on nature. Nature has been found to have a healing effect. This picture is a view of the hospital from the front. It was built to look like mountains or rocks with a waterfall running down the middle. (The blue color in the middle is windows.) Our new garden will allow our moms and families to get out of their hospital rooms and into nature, and provide a place where the new brothers and sisters can get out some energy! Allie and I went to the open house on Thursday and got to hang out with my mom and Rick for a little while! (Plug for Banner Gateway: I know I might be a little biased because I work there, but seriously, this hospital is amazing! Every room in the hospital, not just our floor, is a private room. They have room service for your food so you can order what you want and when you want instead of everyone getting the same meal tray, large flat screen TVs in every room, internet access in every room, movie packages for like $5 a day to watch however many movies you want (our dads like this one!), huge windows and a fold out couch in every room (for family obviously), each hospital bed mattress is filled with air and adjusts to your body when you move or turn over (our patients love this!), and the rooms are huge! I could go on and on, but I think you get the point...)

Grandma playing with

Allie in the play area.

Allie loved the waterfall

(on the left in the pic).

Rick picked her up and

let her splash the water

and she loved it!

She tried to crack the

combination to see

what was in the safe in

Grandma's office.

Allie's face sums up how

much she loves Rick!

He can always make Allie

laugh! He was making

his Vocera (kinda like a walkie-

talkie for all the employees)

make funny noises.

This is what happens after

spinning too much...

Allie is keeping her options

open. In case she decides to

not be a nurse, she could

always try her hand at being

a sumo-wrestler. She spreads

her legs wide and shakes her

hips while slowly lowering

to the ground. Goofball!

Allie loves washing her

hands with the hand gel on

the wall.