Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg visit Sabrina Giangrande, a patient at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai
The stars of “Daddy’s Home 2,” Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, brought smiles to the faces of pediatric patients during bedside visits at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai, on Thursday, November 9. The occasion was sponsored by Lollipop Theater Network, a nonprofit organization that works with motion picture studios to bring first-run movies to children in hospitals nationwide. In addition to the visit, several adolescent patients and their family members had the opportunity to watch the new movie at their bedsides. “It was wonderful, a real morale booster,” says Cheryl Strauss, Child Life Specialist with the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department at Kravis Children’s Hospital. “Meeting the actors brightened the day for patients and their families.”
Patient Arianna Khelil and her mother, Maria Colletto-Khelil, meet with, from left, Max Schneider, Lollipop Theater Network, Mark Wahlberg, and Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg meet with, left to right, Charles Ennis, Senior Clinical Director, Women and Children’s Services, Mount Sinai Health System; Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System; and Frances Cartwright, PhD, Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President , The Mount Sinai Hospital