Your Healthy Family: UCHealth adds Avalanch VR experience - KOAA News 5

COLORADO SPRINGS — Recently, up of the Colorado Avalanche play opener astatine UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital, 1 fortunate diligent got to be the Colorado Avalanche triumph parade and comparison his acquisition with that of Avalanche captain, Gabe Landeskog. Robb Baker is receiving chemotherapy astatine UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital and was the archetypal diligent to acquisition the newest video added to UCHealth’s five-year-old virtual world programme for patients.

“For radical similar maine who are stuck successful present being capable to be the triumph parade is beauteous cool,” said Baker, 35, who’s battling precocious signifier colon cancer. “You’re disquieted astir truthful galore things and to person a small flight is awesome.”

Baker and Landeskog sat broadside by side, wearing VR headsets and pointed things retired to each different arsenic they “participated” successful the parade – Landeskog reliving his June acquisition and Baker experiencing it for the archetypal time.

Nicole Caputo, elder manager of acquisition and innovation astatine UCHealth, launched the programme arsenic the eventual distraction therapy for patients facing agelong oregon achy treatments.

“We are capable to usage VR to transport patients to a spot that brings them joy,” said Caputo. “In summation to the extended video library, we listened to our patients who requested we make unsocial Colorado experiences.”

The Avalanche triumph parade is the latest summation to the video library, which besides includes an acquisition with the Denver Broncos, the Colorado Symphony astatine Red Rocks and a thrust done the Rocky Mountains with nonrecreational cyclists. This is the archetypal clip an NHL title parade is being utilized to payment section infirmary patients and UCHealth is launching the contented successful beforehand of the Avalanche raising their title banner time (Oct. 12) successful their play opening crippled against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Since the programme launched successful 2017, UCHealth has provided implicit 17,000 experiences for patients crossed the 12-hospital system.

“This is what the aboriginal of diligent acquisition is each about,” said Kyle Rand, main enforcement serviceman astatine Rendever, the supplier of UCHealth’s VR platform. “The travel done wellness attraction is often a agelong and arduous one, filled with anxiousness and loneliness. The squad astatine UCHealth is starring the complaint connected reimagining this travel into thing genuinely extraordinary.”

UCHealth presently has much than 60 pairs of VR headsets and offers them to patients who are receiving agelong infusion treatments, similar chemotherapy, patients whose illnesses forces them to beryllium isolated from loved ones and patients who are facing achy procedures, specified arsenic dressing changes for pain patients.

“The agelong word extremity is to connection VR experiences to each UCHealth patients who tin payment from this technology, careless of the benignant of attraction they are receiving,” said Caputo. “We had large occurrence during the pandemic utilizing VR astatine our vaccine clinics, helping patients who endure from needle phobia.”

While not each patients volition beryllium capable to beryllium adjacent to Landeskog and comparison notes, they excessively tin acquisition what it feels similar to thrust connected apical of a occurrence motortruck done the streets of Denver, celebrating the 2022 Avalanche victory.

After the acquisition was over, Baker, who is simply a immense Avalanche fan, said that helium felt similar a kid who had been granted a wish. “After being diagnosed and starting treatments earlier this year, I don’t retrieve overmuch astir the extremity of the Avs play oregon the triumph parade, but I volition ever retrieve this.”

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