TK News and Stories

Xander’s Story

Rigorous physical rehab is effective! Xander Benton is a sweet and smart 6-year- old boy with Spastic Cerebral Palsy, a condition associated with damage to the motor cortex of the brain, and which makes voluntary movement harder to control and less fluid, or “spastic.” As a result, Xander continuously made involuntary jerky movements, and experienced…

Pet Therapy: The Power of Our Furry Friends

Did you know pet therapy has the power to stimulate healing and recovery for children hospitals? The benefits of pet therapy are numerous and well documented in the scientific literature. Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of pet therapy in a number of hospital settings and have found a wide range of advantages. Animals have long…

Guide to the Appropriate Car Seat for Your Child.

Fitting your child properly in the correct car seat may save his or her life during an accident. Recently, my 10-year-old son and I went on a road trip from our home in Corona, California to San Francisco. As with all road trips, we planned out everything we would do on each leg of our…

Monthly Church Service

The patients and residents of Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital asked for opportunities to worship so we recently introduced a monthly church service in keeping with our family-centered care. Emmaus Redlands, a local congregation, volunteered to bring music, teaching, prayer, and fellowship time to our hospital campus in our Family Room. The first church service was…

Thank You, Girl Scout Volunteers!

We would like to thank the volunteers from Girl Scout Troop 11494 for your help with the Kids 4 Ever House. Thank you to Samantha Le, Sarah Taylor, and Abby Pelliteri. Your hard work is really appreciated. We can’t wait to show off your work to the families that use the house when visiting their…

Sharing Christmas with our Friends and Volunteers

The holidays at Totally Kids were extra special this year. We had several events for the children to enjoy. Throughout the month we had events that included live music from different choirs, face painting, a Christmas puppet show, outdoor car show, outdoor light show, Christmas crafts and ornament making activities, and our annual Totally Kids…

Christmas Party 2016

Totally Kids hosted our annual Christmas Party on December 17th. Many of our residents’ family members attended, along with our staff. There were many fun activities for our patients and guests to enjoy at the party. We had Christmas crafts and ornament-making at Santa’s workshop, exciting games with prizes for the children and adults, food and drinks…

Musical Performance Class

On November 19th, our residents had the opportunity to participate in a musical performance! The performance was led by Bryan Hotchkiss and PhI Mu Alpha, a music club at University of Redlands. The performers from the Sinfonia Delta Pi chapter consisted of 15 male volunteers who sang, played musical instruments, and gave the patients live instruction…

One More from the Heart – 2016

On Sunday, November 13th 2016, we had our 26th annual biker run event. Hundreds of bikers from all over Southern California gathered together to participate in the “One More From The Heart” run where the bikers fund-raise and donate gifts to the residents. Donations included clothes, toys, batteries, art supplies, DVDs, CDs, blankets, and other…

Harvest Party 2016

On October 31st, we held our annual Harvest Party. Many of our patients and families had the opportunity to dress up in costumes and participate in a parade around the facility. They also visited our friends at KidShip and Circlebrook. Each department at Totally Kids was involved with the Harvest Party and passed out candy,…