{"id":2966,"date":"2023-11-30T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:31:45","slug":"christmas-cheer-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/news\/christmas-cheer-stars","title":{"rendered":"Christmas cheer comes to STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container 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 fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:89.44rem;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Christmas cheer comes to STARS<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_2967\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2967\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2967 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/stars-christmastree.jpg\" alt=\"RBWH Foundation CEO Simone Garske and STARS Acting Executive Director Geoff Grima in front of the new Christmas tree at STARS\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/stars-christmastree-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/stars-christmastree-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/stars-christmastree-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/stars-christmastree-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/stars-christmastree.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;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RBWH Foundation CEO Simone Garske and STARS Acting Executive Director Geoff Grima in front of the new Christmas tree at STARS<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>For Geoff Grima, Acting Executive Director of STARS, the beautifully decorated tree is a welcome addition to the hospital.<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cPreviously the tree at STARS was organised by individual staff members so this year it is wonderful to have our own designated, decorated tree, generously supplied by the Foundation,\u201d Geoff said.\u201cFor STARS patients and their families, visitors and staff, the Christmas tree brings a little bit of Christmas cheer to the hospital and will be very appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RBWH Foundation CEO Simone Garske said it was a joy to help spread the magic of Christmas across Herston campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is the tree brightens the day of patients and their loved ones, at a time of year that is about generosity of spirit and celebrating connection,\u201d said Ms Garske.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas tree installation is also a reminder of the RWBH Foundation\u2019s \u2018Gift of Time\u2019 Christmas appeal. The annual appeal raises funds for our world-leading researchers, doctors and medical teams to advance patient care and develop breakthrough treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, the RBWH Foundation is inviting the community to join us in providing the Gift of Time for researchers to develop better treatments, clinicians to invest in medical innovation, and for patients to spend quality time with their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December patients will also notice other areas beginning to look a lot like Christmas, when the annual staff Christmas decorating competition gets underway. The competition is fiercely contested with some teams spending many hours of their own time to decorate their area.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is \u2018tropical\u2019 as decided by last year\u2019s winner, Day Surgery, which should make for some very original and colourful displays.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBWH Foundation has recently installed a wonderful Christmas tree in the ground floor foyer of STARS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}