WFUBMC Sponsors Health Exhibit

January 18, 2007

Brenner Children’s Hospital is sponsoring a new exhibit at the Winston-Salem Children’s Museum called Circulate It!, beginning this month. Circulate It! is a fun, interactive exhibit that encourages children to keep their hearts healthy by moving around. The children’s museum will hold an official ribbon cutting on Friday, January 26 at 10 a.m.

The opening ceremony will be followed by preschool discovery story time at 11 a.m. for children and their siblings. In addition, staff at the museum will be doing the "Snowflake Shuffle" all day with fun for children of all ages. There will be fun, snow-related arts and crafts, snow stories and a huge lost-mitten hunt through the museum.

Admission is $6 for adults and children over 1; members and educators are free. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday. The Children’s Museum is located at 390 S. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem. For more information call 723-9111 or visit www.childrensmuseumofws.org.

Brenner Children’s Hospital is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. For more information, visit www.brennerchildrens.org.

Media Contact: Rae Bush (336) 716-6878, rbush@wfubmc.edu; or Ellen Schuette (336) 723-9111 ext. 204, eshuette@childrensmuseumofws.org.

About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: Wake Forest Baptist is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Brenner Children’s Hospital. It is licensed to operate 1,187 acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatry and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.

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Main Number: news@wakehealth.edu, 336-713-4587