Photos: UMMC staff partake in safe holiday celebrations
Published on Monday, December 21, 2020
While COVID-19 has changed the way many celebrate the holidays, UMMC faculty, staff and students have worked to brighten the season safely. Festive decorations, food drives, socially distanced parades for Children’s of Mississippi hospital patients and even visits by Ralphie, the Medical Center’s Elf on the Shelf, have brought joy in December.
Taylor Cupit, left, and Cambria Boone, first-year medical students, decorate a Christmas tree on 4 South.
Kelsey Tadlock, left, takes a selfie with Michelle Goreth, her pediatric nurse practitioner instructor, in front of her Merry Grinchmas decorations in the School of Nursing.
Michelle Chambers and Pepper Weed-Cooper, child life specialists, greeted Children's of Mississippi hospital patients with the "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" float in the "Rockin' Around Children's" parade.
Cash Ward of Summitt, a Children's of Mississippi patient, wore his dinosaur Christmas pajamas for the "Rockin' Around Children's" parade Dec. 10.
Angela Bilbro, dental assistant, won first place in the School of Dentistry's mask-decorating contest with her "Baby, it's COVID outside" facial covering.
Laurel Roberts of Enterprise, a Children's of Mississippi patient, and her mother, Alyssa, smile as the "Rockin' Around Children's" parade goes by.
Marilyn Lee, dental assistant, won second place in the School of Dentistry's mask-decorating contest.
Ralphie, the Elf on the Shelf on the Batson Tower's third floor, has a central line during his hospital stay.
From left, Ashley Saulsberry, Johntre Goudy, Aaron Winters, Teleshia Johnson, Courtney Jones, Ericka James and SheKerra Dawkins-Strong, members of the Student National Dental Association at the School of Dentistry, take part in a festive holiday food drive.
Cara Williams, child life specialist, sorts the many dolls donated for children's hospital patients.
Members of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Neuroscience Institute participated in the Children’s of Mississippi Safe Center's holiday donation drive. They include, from left, Bryan Nelms, Tammy Hollingsworth, Robin French, Frances Spinosa and Kristie McGloster.