Hospital + Theme Park? Cough. Does my forehead feel warm?

The lobby of the Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children features several interactive activities and experiences that children of all ages can enjoy to ultimately enhance patient experience. For example, kids can fish for virtual salmon, step into a safari to touch and illuminate markings on a cave wall, generate jungle sounds on musical step pads, swat chirping bugs that glow during an engaging game that tests memory skills or play in a magical world of bubbles and dancing creatures from under the sea.

Preview of Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital (includes photos)

If we hold true that treatment and recovery entails more than just medical science, then why shouldn’t hospitals incorporate playfulness into their very design? Like they say, laughter is the best medicine…