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Planning Is Needed To Keep Patients Busy On Rainy Sundays
New York New York April 1 1976 Many a mother has gone quietly mad trying to keep a houseful of youngsters occupied on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Brooklyn's Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Mrs Wilburn chief of recreational therapy says her job is to plan weeks and months ahead to keep 800 charges engaged. She arranges theater trips parks museums and sports events with a hospital van for wheelchair patients. Indoor activities occur in therapy shops gym and the aquarium with a colorful carnival and a wheelchair decorating contest among projects. Volunteers support long term patients but professional direction remains essential to life for elderly and younger long term patients.
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Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center