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Tri-City Medical Center Brings Christmas to the Patients, Staff and Volunteers

From healing music, to holiday meals, and a stockings made for 50 Christmas babies.

Tri-City Medical Center is doing what it can to make the holidays bright for those who have to work on Christmas or be in the hospital.

The lobby is filled with healing music by guitarist Steve Anderson who regularly strums marvelous Christmas tunes in the Tri-City lobby to relax and comfort guests. Classical pianist Soo Rim Choi, Sound Design Barbershop Quartet, and Girl Scout Troops who perform Christmas music at the hospital to provide holiday merriment. 

Hospital food is getting an upgrade Christmas day with a lunch of: Corn chowder, mixed green salad, and a choice of chicken Florentine or carved beef tenderloin, accompanied by twice-baked potatoes and asparagus. A variety of dessert choices, including chocolate peppermint cake, are offered. For Dinner, patients will get: Butternut squash soup, mixed green salad, and a choice of bone-in ham with Dijon sauce or pork tenderloin with cinnamon/cranberry/apple compote, accompanied by whipped sweet potatoes and green beans, or shrimp scampi with wild rice and green beans. Tri-City offers a holiday cookie for dessert, as well as sparkling cider and eggnog.

Fifty holiday babies will travel home in a red felt holiday-themed sock, handcrafted with love by hospital auxiliary volunteers. The auxiliary also creates stuffed toys, which are gifted to children who come in with patients. 

Further, the first baby born on New Year’s Day will go home in a white decorated felt sock with a knitted white cap and blanket honoring its arrival. The baby will also receive a basket of goodies filled with diapers, baby supplies, blankets and towels. 

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–TCMC press release contributed to this report


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