Celebrating Main South Fenway-style
The area surrounding the newly named Children's Way was transformed into Fenway Park last month, as Children's Hospital Boston celebrated the completion of the new clinical building expansion, Main South, with tours of the new space and two baseball-themed employee events that featured all the fixings of Fenway—from popcorn and sodas to miniature chocolate baseballs and baseball-shaped stress balls.
President and CEO James Mandell, MD, kicked off the June 16 event, welcoming attendees, offering facts and figures on the new building and recognizing various dignitaries in attendance, including State Representatives Robert Coughlin, Steve LeDuc and Jeffrey Sanchez, as well as Red Sox owner John Henry and his wife, Peggy, who is a member of the Children's Hospital Trust Board. Mandell also introduced two special guests—patients Maggie Mansfield and Maggie Flaherty, who together pulled a giant mock-bandage off the new Children's Way street sign symbolizing Main South's completion.
The first event also featured the World Series Trophy, set against a scale model of the famed Green Monster, where employees had their pictures taken. At the second event, held the next morning from 7 to 9 a.m. to accommodate the overnight shift, there were several raffle prizes, including tickets to a Red Sox game. Copies of Children's new history book were handed out at both events.
Patients will begin moving into Main South on Wednesday, June 29.
