{"id":1119,"date":"2021-04-15T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:28:27","slug":"little-donations-bring-big-comfort-to-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/get-redi\/2021\/04\/little-donations-bring-big-comfort-to-patients","title":{"rendered":"Little donations bring big comfort to patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1118 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/04\/donations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/04\/donations-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/04\/donations-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/04\/donations-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/04\/donations-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/04\/donations.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hospital staff, volunteers and Auxiliary members are all working together to make free toiletry packs for patients.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Coordinator Susan Law said the packs were particularly sought after in the wards and the Emergency Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people find themselves in hospital unexpectedly, these little packs of personal items and toiletries can make their stay a lot more comfortable,\u201d Susan said.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital staff are encouraged to donate unopened and new packets of toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap, shampoo and similar items.<\/p>\n<p>Susan said the items should be dropped off at the hospital\u2019s information counter during business hours.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital staff, volunteers and Auxiliary members are all working together to make free toiletry packs for patients.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-get-redi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}