Lori Lerma, MS, interviews Rick Schwartz during a live taping in the Child Life Zone.
Patients and families at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai recently enjoyed a television broadcast hosted by Lori Lerma, MS, Senior Child Life Specialist, and her guest, San Diego Zoo Global Ambassador Rick Schwartz, where a new partnership between Kravis Children’s Hospital and San Diego Zoo Global was announced.
The partnership adds the San Diego Zoo Kids Channel, a new and innovative closed-circuit television broadcast channel featuring family-friendly, animal-oriented shows to the existing programming offered at Kravis Children’s Hospital by KidZone TV. The hospital is the first in New York State to provide the channel, which has more than 16 hours of content.
Created by the San Diego Zoo, the channel offers up-close video encounters with all kinds of animals. Viewers can observe the Zoo’s famous Panda Cam, Tiger Cam, Condor Cam, and other online cameras, as well as content from zoos across the country.
“We are so excited to partner with San Diego Zoo Global to provide this channel to our patients,” says Lisa M. Satlin, MD, Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Health System. “The engaging and educational programming will provide a lighthearted and welcome distraction for our pediatric patients and their families.”
KidZone TV broadcasts original programming to every patient room at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. The state-of-the-art, interactive production and internal broadcast studio is located in the Child Life Zone, a therapeutic and educational play environment for pediatric patients and their families.