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Inside the new facility, we will be able to separate patients by age and ability with safe areas for babies and toddlers, dedicated spaces for teenagers, and pleasant outdoor grounds. What child wouldn’t love an opportunity to play and explore in a beautiful, adaptive space?
The facility will improve our ability to provide pediatric rehabilitation following an accident or surgery.
Through advanced technology, we will be able to continue schooling residents recovering in the hospital. Technology-enhanced distance monitoring will allow for continuing education, enabling our students, teachers, and other professionals to interact with peers and parents in remote locations, including Rapid City.
Part of the work we do at LifeScape involves helping children with medically complex conditions, like 5-year-old Xiomara. She was diagnosed with having a Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency, a rare condition that effects the nerves by her brain stem and spinal cord.
However, don’t let the diagnoses fool you. This little girl is very strong-willed and knows what she wants. With the Children’s Specialty Hospital being on the same campus as our Specialty School and Inpatient Rehabilitation Program, Xiomara is able to continue living her best life. That also includes a tricked out electronic wheelchair designed for her to drive with her feet. Yes, her feet!
Her strength improves everyday thanks to her team, and you can tell her spirits are lifted thanks to the extra care they take in ensuring she is living her best life. We think that smile speaks for itself.
At the LifeScape Specialty Hospital, patients are constantly working towards getting better. In the instance of one little girl named Kiki, her day is filled from sun up to sun down.
There’s play time, therapy time and more, but most importantly there’s a caring staff watching her 24/7 to ensure she gets everything she needs to live her best life, which includes lots of cuddles!
December of 2022 was a month a young man named Channing will never forget. He was admitted to our Children’s Specialty Hospital for Intensive Therapy after he spent several weeks at the Sanford Children’s Castle.
It was in November 2022, when a basic cold virus attacked his lungs. Channing, who suffers from severe asthma, couldn’t breathe and was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit. After undergoing surgery to have a tracheotomy tube placed to help him breathe, Channing continued to work hard to get his strength back. A month later, Channing had made enough progress to transfer to the LifeScape Children’s Specialty Hospital.
After a few weeks of intensive therapy that included physical therapy, feeding and swallowing therapy, and more Channing was able to end the year by walking out of the hospital on his own.
Here’s a fun side note! While Channing was getting ready to leave the hospital, he had a quick chat with LifeScape CEO, Steve Watkins. During their visit, he told Steve about how he is a huge Michigan fan. So, when Channing came back to LifeScape for Outpatient Therapy, guess who and what was waiting for him?
That’s right! Steve was there to greet Channing and his father with a special hoodie to commemorate his recovery.
