Overview

• She led young patients in patriotic arts and crafts in the hospital’s Garden Room ahead of the Fourth of July
• She distributed teddy bears, books, puzzles, blankets and Be Best temporary tattoos to both inpatients and outpatients
• In the Bunny Mellon Healing Garden she placed windmills and flags before unveiling the new 'Eternal Flame' hybrid tea rose
• She held private bedside meetings with transplant, heart and kidney patients and their families after the group activities
• The event reinforced a longstanding tradition of first ladies supporting Children’s National Hospital and promoted her Be Best initiative for children’s well-being