ORLANDO, Fla. – Patient-controlled robots are rolling through the hallways of a local hospital to encourage socialization.“Being stuck in a room can be just super isolating,” Chantelle Bennett, Child life manager at AdventHealth for Children said.Hospitals have had to make big changes during the coronavirus pandemic including keeping more patients in isolation and limiting family visitors.“Prior to COVID we would probably average 3 to 4 patients on a unit that were on isolation.
Since COVID, pretty much every patient, pediatric patient and familym is on isolation,” Bennett said.A grant from Champions for Children from AdventHealth Foundation Central Florida brought robots into the halls of AdventHealth for Children.