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Geisinger School of Medicine pupil Miranda Chen plays violin for Howard Grassmyer of Lewistown.
LEWISTOWN — Miranda Chen played violin for the inpatients astatine Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital connected Christmas Eve and Christmas time this year.
“This is simply a mode for the patients to acquisition what they mightiness beryllium missing this vacation season,” Miranda said.
Miranda, who is from State College, began taking violin lessons arsenic a 10-year-old. “I anticipation to springiness backmost to the patients by playing beauteous music,” she said.
Miranda joined the nursing unit and teams astatine GLH to dispersed vacation cheer to those who are sick, hurting and often lonely during the holidays.
“We anticipation the patients consciousness however overmuch they are loved and cared for,” said Stacey Osborne, vice president and main nursing serviceman astatine GLH. “It’s specified a peculiar clip of year, and our teams wanted to explicit that to our patients.”
Miranda shared wherefore she performed this meaningful gesture.
“A fewer years ago, I was invited to play my violin astatine a tiny Christmas fundraiser, which was outdoors and acceptable up similar a mini Christmas market. It was an lawsuit wherever families came unneurotic to admit their difficulties, but besides stock cheer and appreciation. Since then, I’ve tried to enactment successful thing akin each year.”
Miranda volition postgraduate from aesculapian schoolhouse successful 2024. Her extremity is to signifier superior care.
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