{"id":83634,"date":"2017-01-23T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=83634"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:05:23","slug":"teddy-bear-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/01\/23\/teddy-bear-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bear Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Teddy-Bear-Clinic-1-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Bear Clinic 1-2017\" width=\"545\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Wert County Hospital hosted 108 kids for its annual Teddy Bear Clinic on Friday and Saturday. A total of 22 volunteers also helped out at the clinic. Children walked their Teddy Bears through stations designed to model a regular visit to the hospital. Kids \u201cchecked in\u201d their stuffed animals and got an ID bracelet for the bears. They then traveled to the ER (above) on a gurney, where a nurse showed them what it\u2019s like to be a patient and provided interactive, age-appropriate health information, according to Ellen Rager, hospital patient\/community coordinator. The kids then went to Teddy Bear Triage, where vital signs were taken, the bears were weighed and measured, while also receiving breathing treatments and got a cast to mend broken bones. Kids then listened to a story and had a healthy snack as well. The theme for the event was \u201ccome see us before you need us.\u201d Above, a volunteer checks vital signs on a Teddy Bear.<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert County Hospital hosted 108 kids for its annual Teddy Bear Clinic on Friday and Saturday. A total of 22 volunteers also helped out at the clinic. Children walked their Teddy Bears through stations designed to model a regular visit to the hospital. Kids \u201cchecked in\u201d their stuffed animals and got an ID bracelet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:54:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}