Ga offline met de app Player FM !
Healing Paws With Heather Stohr
Manage episode 408147434 series 86190
Plenty of research shows that pets can help us heal, and now even hospitals are warming up to the idea. On this episode, host Brittany Derrenbacher sits down with Heather Stohr, a certified child life specialist at Norton Children’s in Louisville, KY. Heather manages the facility dog program at Norton Healthcare, which allows animals to play a very important role in the healing process for patients, families, and caregivers. Find out how they are changing lives one hospital bed at a time.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- What a facility dog does in a hospital — and how it changes the way patients heal.
- How dogs are trained to become facility dogs.
- How dogs are also changing the lives of prisoners as they are being trained.
545 afleveringen
Manage episode 408147434 series 86190
Plenty of research shows that pets can help us heal, and now even hospitals are warming up to the idea. On this episode, host Brittany Derrenbacher sits down with Heather Stohr, a certified child life specialist at Norton Children’s in Louisville, KY. Heather manages the facility dog program at Norton Healthcare, which allows animals to play a very important role in the healing process for patients, families, and caregivers. Find out how they are changing lives one hospital bed at a time.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- What a facility dog does in a hospital — and how it changes the way patients heal.
- How dogs are trained to become facility dogs.
- How dogs are also changing the lives of prisoners as they are being trained.
545 afleveringen
Alle afleveringen
×Welkom op Player FM!
Player FM scant het web op podcasts van hoge kwaliteit waarvan u nu kunt genieten. Het is de beste podcast-app en werkt op Android, iPhone en internet. Aanmelden om abonnementen op verschillende apparaten te synchroniseren.