Hospitals around the country have found a way of easing children into operating rooms, through the thoughtful and kind donations of electric power wheels

At Rady’s Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California, the Pediatric department received a fleet of Power Wheels that were donated by the San Diego Police Department.

 Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, has a John Deere, which acts as a fun transition from the safety of their parents to the unknown of the operating room.

 Ahead of surgery, the child receives their very own driver’s license and the keys to the pint-sized John Deere Gator. "[The John Deere] is a transition piece from parents who they know, where they're safe, to people who they don't know in scrubs,” says Barksdale.

Amanda Rochowiak, who works as a pre-op coordinator, added, “It makes it easier on that transition for the parent as well as the child. Because they know the child is not scared, they're not crying, they're not leaving them in a fearful state.”

Two other hospitals, Oklahoma’s Integris Children’s Hospital and Oishei’s Children’s Hospital in New York, also have similar Power Wheels fleets, which include a Ford Mustang and MINI Cooper.

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