Keeping the Games Going with Ace Hardware

Game on!

Here at Oishei Children’s Hospital (OCH), we know as much as anyone that a fun game, activity or craft can do wonders to get your mind off of your worries. In fact, it’s been found that distractions like gaming can even reduce pain scores for patients during medical procedures like blood draws or other testing.

Our Child Life Team is happy to bring our gaming cart around the different floors of the hospital to help patients relieve stress or boredom, or as a tool to assist in rehabilitation or physical therapy. In the past, gaming has even been used as a teaching tool for patients about to receive a procedure or to learn more about a disorder or illness.

We’re lucky that many organizations find the value in providing gaming and other activities to our patients – organizations like Ace Hardware. As a partner of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN), Ace Hardware supports local CMN hospitals across the country just like OCH. Our local Ace Hardware stores have raised funds for OCH through programs like Round Up at the register and the Miracle Bucket promotion. Ace’s vendors provide support through their Helping Hands program – and we’re happy to announce that OCH was recently selected as one of 38 projects funded through this program! This $10,000 donation will be put towards purchasing another gaming cart to be used in the hospital, expanding the volume of patients able to game out their stress.

Thank you to Ace Hardware and their vendors for supporting the kids at OCH!