By Healthcare Facilities Today

Inspired by a young cancer patient, Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, redesigned a cancer treatment waiting room just for kids. 

According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Froedtert Hospital Foundation, raised nearly $35,000 for the project, much of the money donated by Froedtert staff and physicians. 

Emily De Young of Neenah, Wis., whose rare cancer as treated at Froedtert, was recently given a giant pair of scissors with bright red handles, and she and her mother ceremoniously cut a braid of orange, yellow and pink ribbons taped across the room's doorway.

According to the article, written by Crocker Stevenson: "There was nothing for Emily and her turbocharged sister to do but rush into the brightly colored room, with its shelves of games, toys and books, and do what kids do.

There, on the radiation oncology floor, they played."

Read the article.