Posted on Friday March 21, 2014
As patients, families and staff looked out the windows of Lakeridge Health’s Oshawa site today, they wondered: Is that a bird? Is that a plane? No. It was Superman.
Superman was joined by Spiderman and Wolverine to clean windows at the hospital today, bringing super-sized smiles to the faces of patients, including children in our paediatric unit, their families and staff.
“We’re thrilled to have these three Superheroes helping us clean today. It was pretty neat to see them scaling our walls,” says Lisa Shiozaki, Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive at Lakeridge Health.
CSP Window Cleaning Inc. was part of the initiative to help bring a little more fun to the typical window cleaning of a hospital.
Shiozaki noted that patients in hospital can find it jarring when a window washer appears in their window, no matter how much notice is given, and that anxiety can be exacerbated for children. So a call went out to Superheroes to help as a way of making the experience more interactive and fun.
“In our hospital we have real-life superheroes walking the halls every day. But these guys can fly, so that makes them pretty cool,” says Shiozaki.
Superman enjoyed seeing the kids and other patients, and was especially grateful for one thing. “I’m always nervous about kryptonite build-up, but this hospital is spic and span clean,” says Superman.
Photos of the event are available on Facebook and videos of the event are available on Youtube.
