Utah Jazz players visited with patients at the Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital Miller Family Campus.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah Jazz players visited with patients at the Intermountain Health Primary Children’s Hospital Miller Family Campus.
On Tuesday, members of the Utah Jazz Basketball team met with the young patients and their families at Primary Children’s Hospital campus in Lehi. While this was one of their first visits to the Lehi campus, the team reportedly has a years-long tradition of visiting young patients.
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Kari Larson, the Utah Jazz’s Vice President of Community & Special Events, said, “We’ve been visiting the children’s hospital and hospitals in the area for 20, 30 years.”
During their visit today, Jazz representatives colored, made friendship bracelets, held a dance party, and participated in other activities with patients.
Ariel Hortin, a dance movement therapist at Primary Children’s said, “It’s like one of the funnest parts of the job because we get to work with people coming in and working with the kids. The goal with that is to not only connections through the community, but also to provide experiences for the kids in the hospital that might make the hospital less traumatizing.”
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She added that it helps give the kids a fun reason to go to the hospital and helps provide them with mental coping techniques.
Larson said that their players and team members also love attending these events, “They love being able to meet with kids, especially because they know they’re fans. Especially your young players, they remember that time where they met a player for the first time, and that’s always an amazing experience for them to sort of be able to give that back.”
She also added that she’s grateful for Intermountain and their other community partners who host these events.
Nicholas Rewey contributed to this article.
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