Project Sunshine and UnitedHealth Group Team up to Bring a Winter Carnival to Miller Children’s
31 January 2015 - 11:18AM
Business Wire
- Walkaround Elmo to attend and help spread
cheer among patients and their families –
Volunteers from UnitedHealth Group today brought a Winter Party
to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s
Hospital Long Beach. Project Sunshine provides programs that
educate and entertain children facing medical challenges. Together,
volunteers offered creative craft activities, entertainment and
games for hospitalized children of all ages to provide relief from
the stress and monotony of treatment.
UnitedHealth Group volunteers and Sesame
Street’s Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought
program, brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at
Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach today
(UnitedHealth Group volunteers and Sesame Street’s® Elmo, a partner
of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, brought a Winter
Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s &
Women’s Hospital Long Beach today (Photo Courtesy of Project
Sunshine).
Special guests included Sesame Street’s® Elmo, a partner of
UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, and 30 volunteers from
UnitedHealth Group’s local office.
Since beginning its relationship with Project Sunshine in early
2010, more than 13,200 UnitedHealth Group volunteers have created
63,000 Arts and Crafts Kits, and 18,300 Sunny Grams for pediatric
patients across the country. These dynamic volunteers have
supported more than 23,000 children and their families.
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UnitedHealth GroupLauren Mihajlov, 952-936-3068