Project Sunshine and UnitedHealth Group Team up to Bring a Winter Carnival to Miller Children’s

- Walkaround Elmo to attend and help spread cheer among patients and their families –

UnitedHealth Group volunteers and Sesame Street’s Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach today (UnitedHealth Group volunteers and Sesame Street’s® Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach today (Photo Courtesy of Project Sunshine).

  • UnitedHealth Group volunteers and Sesame Street’s Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach today (UnitedHealth Group volunteers and Sesame Street’s® Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach today (Photo Courtesy of Project Sunshine).

  • Volunteers from UnitedHealth Group, and Sesame Street’s Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, are pictured with a young patient at today’s Project Sunshine Winter Party at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach (Photo courtesy of Project Sunshine).

LONG BEACH, Calif.--()--Volunteers from UnitedHealth Group today brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach. Project Sunshine provides programs that educate and entertain children facing medical challenges. Together, volunteers offered creative craft activities, entertainment and games for hospitalized children of all ages to provide relief from the stress and monotony of treatment.

Special guests included Sesame Street’s® Elmo, a partner of UnitedHealthcare’s Food for Thought program, and 30 volunteers from UnitedHealth Group’s local office.

Since beginning its relationship with Project Sunshine in early 2010, more than 13,200 UnitedHealth Group volunteers have created 63,000 Arts and Crafts Kits, and 18,300 Sunny Grams for pediatric patients across the country. These dynamic volunteers have supported more than 23,000 children and their families.

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Contacts

UnitedHealth Group
Lauren Mihajlov, 952-936-3068

Release Summary

Volunteers from UnitedHealth Group today brought a Winter Party to the patients and families at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach.

Contacts

UnitedHealth Group
Lauren Mihajlov, 952-936-3068