Susquehanna Valley Corvette Club Provides Two Mini C8 Corvettes to Transport Pediatric Patients

Sitting behind the wheel of a miniature white C8 Corvette, the big smile on little Rio Jade Fought’s face best sums up the goal behind a Pennsylvania Corvette club’s project.

The young girl was the first pediatric orthopedic patient at Geisinger Woodbine hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania to take a ride in one of two remote-control miniature Corvettes donated by the Susquehanna Valley Corvette Club, and she wasted no time breaking into a huge grin as she took a ride up and down the hallway Wednesday morning.

“This is what it’s all about,” Nick Covino, past chair of the Corvette club, told the Moultrie Observer.

The idea behind the remote-control Corvettes is to make it less stressful for the kids to make their way through the facility for procedures like X-rays or casting.

“We are always looking for ways to reduce stress in these situations,” says Zena Lewoc, operations director of the Musculoskeletal Institute at Geisinger. “We will utilize the cars to travel through the clinic and make it feel more stress-free.”

Workers at Geisinger underwent training to learn how to operate the cars safely, being required to drive the car through a course before taking patients on real rides.

Danay Bellum, a licensed social worker at Geisinger, thinks the cars are a great idea.

“When going to something like an X-ray, it’s scary because they don’t know what to expect,” Bellum said. “I think this will definitely make things like that less stressful for them.”

The Corvette club decided on the project after being inspired by a Cars for Kids show they held earlier at the hospital, according to Covino.

“The kids would come out and judge the cars, and the adults were all dressed as superheroes,” he said. “It really touched me.”

The 145-member club raised the funds for the remote-control C8s through their annual car show that had raised nearly $50,000 since 2014 for scholarships to the Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The remote-control cars represent a new mission for the club, and Covino hopes more such projects are on the way.

“This comes from the heart,” he said. “I’d love to do more for the kids. Maybe this will open some eyes in other departments, and we could expand it more.”

Source:
Moultrie Observer

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