Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children supports the concept that each patient is an individual and is respected as a person.
Each patient has the right to comprehensive, compassionate, family-centered healthcare that will be provided by an interdisciplinary team and directed by the physician.
Therefore, we advocate an approach that provides sensitive and flexible healthcare that respects the developmental, psychological, emotional and social needs of patients and their families.
As part of our commitment to the needs of our young patients, the Arnold Palmer Hospital Children's Bill of Rights is prominently displayed - and followed - throughout our hospital.
While I am in the hospital, I can expect:
- Time to play each day.
- People to knock on my door before coming in my room.
- Doctors and nurses to tell me their names.
- People to understand that sometimes I need to cry when I'm afraid or hurt.
- My parents to help take care of me.
- People to laugh with me.
- Safe, quiet times during each day.
- People to tell me what's going on and why.
- My room and my bed to be safe places.
- People to let me choose what I want when it's O.K.
- My favorite toy from home to be with me and to go along to surgery and different places in the hospital.
- A hug when I need one.