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September 13, 2006

Hasbro Children's: Send in the clowns

PROVIDENCE – A team of six “clown doctors” will meet patients and their families this afternoon at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.

Started in Providence, the Big Apple Circus Clown Care program now brings clowns into 18 hospitals around the country to ease the fears of hospitalized children who are acutely and chronically ill. The local program will be funded with a three-year grant of $140,000 from Hasbro Children’s Fund, the philanthropic arm of Hasbro Inc.

The clowns will be introduced at the hospital at 2 p.m. and then go on doctor’s rounds, where they perform such “clown medicine” on their patients as red-nose transplants, kitty cat-scans and chocolate-milk transfusions.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 11:32 AM | Permalink

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