Ryan Seacrest hosted the first live broadcast at the new studio inside the atrium of Cohen Children’s Medical Center.
Photo courtesy of Northwell Health
The Ryan Seacrest Foundation launched a brand new broadcast studio and closed circuit channel inside the atrium of Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
Several celebrities and hospital staff joined young patients and their parents for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that unveiled Seacrest Studios – a 1,500-square-foot state-of-the-art multimedia broadcast studio designed to educate and entertain patients to facilitate a better quality of life.
“These patients are missing important things in their lives – their friends, their birthdays and proms. To have something to look forward to and a place to go and connect helps with the healing,” Ryan Seacrest told QNS. “Laughter is great medicine too. When you see a patient laughing or realizing they’ve got a special talent, I think that helps.”
The foundation has been opening similar studios in pediatric hospitals in major cities across the country since 2011. Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Long Island Jewish Medical Center is the 13th location — and the first in New York.
Previously, that section of the atrium held out-patient exam rooms and was utilized as a vaccination site during the pandemic. Now it will serve as a space for adolescent patients to develop media skills by producing their own shows or learn to play an instrument as a form of music therapy. Future programming will also include visits from celebrities and special guests.
The content produced in the studio will also broadcast on screens across the entire hospital, including patient rooms. This allows patients who may not be mobile enough to make it down to the studio to stay engaged. The studio will also have full time staff to run operations and always ensure that some of programming is available at all times.
Following the ribbon-cutting…
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