We are starting the @3wishesprogram.bsky.social
at UCLA West Valley Hospital today! #KindnessIsSpreading

It's about @3wishesprogram.bsky.social!

The 3 Wishes Program helps meet emotional, spiritual, and relational needs of dying patients and their families. In the Richard Irwin Honor Lecture at CHEST 2025, @thanhneville.medsky.social, MD, shared some of the ways that the program has honored patients’ wishes. www.chestnet.org/newsroom/blo...

A lovely fingerprint painting for man who loved his dog and camping. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

oh my heart.

Even though our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social has expanded to pediatrics for a couple of years now, seeing these tiny hands and feet (taken for a painting) still makes me so sad.

Fingerprint keychains (on left) are definitely the most commonly requested items that we gift to families as part of our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social. I can hardly believe it, but a generous donor/volunteer has now offered to create & donate engraved, personalized ones (on right). My heart is full.

Did a webinar on @3wishesprogram.bsky.social for a group in Germany today! #Kindness is spreading.

Image of the first slide of a presentation titled: The Power of Small Acts of Kindness: Stories from the UCLA 3 Wishes Program

I'll be giving this talk to a group in Germany. How cool is that? @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

It's about @3wishesprogram.bsky.social!

Bc this was a baby who died, it was a hand & footprint painting instead of a fingerprint painting. It's hard to think about kids dying, but our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social volunteer artist did such a wonderful job with the parent's request--depicting the 3 little animals that were on her mobile.

@3wishesprogram.bsky.social is about honoring the patient as a PERSON rather than their illness in their death.

@3wishesprogram.bsky.social is about honoring the patient as a PERSON rather than their illness in their death.

Our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social journey. It takes a village and I’m so grateful for the nurses and volunteers who have walked along my side. youtu.be/yzybQgUpfLQ?...

The Heart Behind the 3 Wishes Program YouTube video by UCLA Health

If you're bored and need something to do today, check out my @uclahealth.org podcast on @3wishesprogram.bsky.social that just want live! It's also available on Apple podcast and spotify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzyb...

One of my ex-UCLA-trainee is planning to start and lead a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social at Kaiser! How cool is that???

A fingerprint painting for a beautiful soul who loved the color purple. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

To commemorate their late mom, the family requested a fingerprint painting of a botanical garden. In that garden, they requested a red hummingbird to represent their mom and a ladybug and butterfly to represent her 2 daughters. Can you see them? @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

Our music therapist sang and recorded Celine Dion's "Because You Love Me" at the request of a daughter who lost her mom. Her mom's heartbeat recording are the "drums" in the background. I honestly cried listening to this. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

It's pretty incredible, but as of the end of last month, our UCLA @3wishesprogram.bsky.social has fulfilled over 8000 wishes!

Another beautiful fingerprint painting for the family of a bereaved patient. The patient loved roses and the mountains. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

We had the privilege of putting together a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social Celebration of Life for patient way too young to be dying. Favorite food was eaten, speeches were made, tears were shed. Hold the ones you love tight.

This adorable bunny rabbit, with a recording of the patient's final heartbeats, is going out to the family today. @3wishesprogram.bsky.social

Our mission is to foster compassion, dignity, kindness, and human connection, among patients, families, and HCW's during a patient's end-of-life period in the hospital. It seems appropriate that we move to where the skies are blue.

Check out the amazing job our volunteer artist did for our latest @3wishesprogram.bsky.social fingerprint painting. The patient liked American muscle cars, baseball, and fishing. I had to google what an "American muscle car" meant, but glad that our artist knew!

One of our #ICU nurses (who is NOT Chinese) went above and beyond to create this EKG frame with Chinese characters that say "Father's Heart" for a grieving family. I am so grateful for all those who have shared our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social mission.

We just got a request for a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social "Celebration of Life" luncheon for a dying patient. We take so many things for granted every day.

I am reminded of the gentlemen who we did a "reverse funeral" for a few years ago. He was so happy that day (pic shared with permission).

'Now or never': CT woman marries partner of 25 years from her hospital bed as her final wish "She was holding on for this moment," said Betty Nieves-Ramos, one of Luz Fonseca's nurses.

These folks reached out to me in 2024 and now there's a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social in CT! #Kindness is spreading.
www.ctpost.com/news/article...

We did it! A last minute @3wishesprogram.bsky.social luau! Outdoors in beautiful 70 degree weather in the middle of January!

I was just notified that a patient was allowed to see their cat as part of the @3wishesprogram.bsky.social and my heart just broke into a thousand pieces. #PetsAreFamily