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Source: Sharp HealthcareMay 12, 2024 (La Mesa) – In honor of Mother’s Day, the landscaping team at Sharp Grossmont Hospital gave moms who are delivering babies at Sharp Grossmont Hospital for Women & Newborns their own “special delivery” of fresh cut roses. This morning, the nurses and landscapers teamed up to deliver more than 30 bouquets.
The program, called “This Bud’s for You,” was initiated by Sharp Grossmont Hospital landscapers 16 years ago. Since then, each Mother’s Day weekend, the landscapers harvest fresh cut flowers from the hospital gardens, which they grow and maintain themselves year-round. They then arrange the bouquets and deliver the flowers to new moms.
“This Bud’s for You” is an award-winning program intended to enhance the Sharp patient experience. In addition to cheering up patients, the program also highlights the important role all hospital employees play in patient care. In the case of their landscapers, it brings team members who primarily work outdoors inside to help brighten a patient’s day.The influence of gardens and plants in hospital settings are known to be beneficial to both patients and staff. There are more than 200 rose bushes growing in Sharp Grossmont’s well-tended gardens, which help promote a healing and calming environment on their campus all year.
ABOUT SHARP GROSSMONT HOSPITAL
Sharp Grossmont Hospital has been serving the East County community for more than 50 years. It is the largest not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital in San Diego’s East County and is part of Sharp HealthCare. The hospital is known for its clinical excellence in emergency and critical care, cardiac care, surgery, stroke care, orthopedics, rehabilitation, behavioral health, women’s health, and hospice care. The hospital also offers extensive outpatient services and prevention programs such as home infusion, sleep disorder care, wound care and hyperbaric medicine to support Sharp HealthCare’s emphasis on community health and wellness. To learn more about Sharp Grossmont Hospital, visit www.sharp.com/grossmont or call 1-800-82-SHARP (1-800-827-4277).
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