{"id":715675,"date":"2026-04-09T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/715675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:10:13","slug":"hospital-employee-runs-wendells-welcome-wagon-after-life-changing-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/715675\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital employee runs &#8216;Wendell&#8217;s Welcome Wagon&#8217; after life-changing accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey &#8212; It was a miracle when Wendell Sweeney walked away from a life-changing accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Now, he walks with a new purpose: to deliver comfort and joy to patients with the help of his &#8216;Welcome Wagon.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sweeney is a member of the Guest Services team at Jefferson Health Washington Township. His primary job consists of greeting guests and checking them in at the Silvestri Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But Sweeney also got tapped to pioneer a new patient care cart program as well. It became known as &#8216;Wendell&#8217;s Welcome Wagon.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He keeps it stocked with hygiene products, crossword puzzles, custom activity books, TV guides, and more. The items are donated from co-workers, patients, and Sweeney himself. Everything is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see what this new purpose means to Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For more information about <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffersonhealth.org\/locations\/washington-township-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jefferson Health Washington Township, visit their website.<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey &#8212; It was a miracle when Wendell Sweeney walked away from a life-changing accident.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":715676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,13986,89027,10180,13941,6478,42206,401,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,297515,297514],"class_list":["post-715675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-care","tag-cart","tag-donations","tag-employee","tag-hospital","tag-kindness","tag-new-jersey","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-township","tag-wendells-welcome-wagon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116374682844502121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}