Simi Valley Hospital | Living Well | Fall 2015

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2975 N. Sycamore Drive
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TABLET COMPUTERS and e-readers are the
modern-day solution to help pass the time when life
slows down—and there’s no better place to have an
endlessly entertaining device in your hands than while
you’re hospitalized.
That’s the idea behind Healthy Pages, a new
program at Simi Valley Hospital. With funds from a
grant provided by parent corporation Adventist Health,
the hospital purchased 32 new iPads that inpatients
may use in the hospital.
Healing helper
Thanks to a partnership between the hospital and the
Simi Valley Public Library, patients have access to the
library’s entire online book collection and can check
out up to 10 titles to read during their stay. The iPad
also offers some game apps and Internet access.
“Healthy Pages fits well into Simi Valley Hospital’s
approach to whole-person care—body, mind and
spirit,” said Crystal Ruditsky, interim chief operating
officer at Simi Valley Hospital, who spearheaded the
application for the innovation grant. “Having access to
books and other diversions on the iPads really helps to
stimulate the mind while the body heals.”
Visitors to patient rooms are also allowed to use
the iPads. Security software controls Internet use and
disables the ability to download any other apps. In
addition, the iPads are protected by an “electronic
Spine surgery
close to home
Comprehensive spine services are now
available right in your community with
the launch of Simi Valley Hospital’s new
spine surgery program. With options for
minimally invasive and conventional
procedures, the program focuses on
issues related to the cervical spine,
thoracic spine and lumbar spine, as well
as scoliosis and deformity surgery.
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volunteering at Simi
Valley Hospital?
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out an application at
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Hover over “About Us,” and
then click on “Volunteer.” Or
call Volunteer Services at
805-955-6950.
Making your hospital stay
a real page-turner fence”: If an iPad is taken outside of the hospital perim-
eter, it immediately becomes inoperable, and the
device displays a message asking the person to return
it to the hospital.
Volunteer management
Simi Valley Hospital’s Volunteer Services manages the
Healthy Pages program.
Valerie Barrett, the hospital’s Volunteer Services
liaison, said the program has been extremely well-
received among patients.
“We’re finding that the patients are really enjoying
having someone just come into their room to say
hello,” she said. “And even those who don’t take an
iPad tell us they think it’s really great to have this
program here at the hospital.”
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