{"id":742762,"date":"2026-02-04T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/742762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:18:11","slug":"new-london-hospital-seeks-pediatric-comfort-item-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/742762\/","title":{"rendered":"New London hospital seeks pediatric comfort item donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London is asking for donations of pediatric comfort and activity items to help young patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The items help lower anxiety for children who are patients and can help distract them during difficult times, according to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Through the end of February, people can drop off new and unused items in the hospital cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A similar donation drive is also being held at Westerly Hospital in Rhode Island this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a press release, a representative from the hospital in New London expressed the importance of the supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur staff want to provide the best possible care to children, while making sure they feel safe and secure,\u201d said Craig Mittleman, MD, chair of emergency medicine at L+M and Westerly hospitals. \u201cThese items, including toys, books, and small toys, provide crucial distraction during procedures, foster a child-friendly environment and help normalize the intimidating hospital setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><b>Eyewitness News will provide more details as soon as they become available.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London is asking for donations of pediatric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[1500,6918,748,393,4884,17129,17128,17127,257,4717,17130,16,15,17126],"class_list":["post-742762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-london","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-video-updates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116014920777241867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}