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Based on a 1947 novel by Valentine Davies, 'Miracle on 34th Street,' is the story of Kris Kringle, an elderly, kindhearted man who believes he is Santa Claus. Doris Walker and her 7-year-old daughter, Susan, meet Kringle when Doris hires him to play Santa for New York's Macy's department store. Kringle's efforts to fight the commercialism surrounding Christmas and to grant children their Christmas wishes eventually lead him into court for a competency hearing.
The stakes are high for Kringle, who is trying to avoid commitment to a psychiatric hospital, and for Susan, who desperately wants to believe in Santa. As mother and daughter overcome their skepticism, they learn the true meaning of the Christmas spirit, as does the audience.
Though not directly related to the famous 1897 New York Sun editorial titled 'Is There a Santa Claus?' the main question of whether or not there is a Santa Claus is ultimately the same: 'Yes, [Virginia], there is a Santa Claus.' With so many quotable lines including 'Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to,' and 'I believe. I believe. It's silly, but I believe!' this is a must-see for the holiday season
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'The whole industry is moving more toward a hotel or resort environment,' Tuttle said. 'When you walk through this building and you come to our main areas, you would never think it's a hospital.' In a $30 million renovation of its newborn intensive-care unit, Phoenix Children's Hospital spent millions to increase patient comfort through design elements. What used to be a loud and bright football-field-size room housing 60 babies will make way for 76 private patient rooms with custom furniture, lighting and draperies, said Deb Green, manager of the newborn intensive-care unit. 'Hospitals have realized we have a customer, and we need to satisfy that customer,' Green said. 'There's more to healing than medicine, and that means providing more than a bed and a curtain.' Dubbed 'womb rooms' because they're meant to mimic a mother's womb, the suites are quieter, darker and calmer than those in the previous unit, where nurses often stumbled over parents between the rows of incubators, Green said. Walk into one of these rooms, and you'll notice seven light switches, two blackout curtains, wood cabinetry, a sleeper couch, a rocker designed specifically for nursing mothers, computer desk and a nurses' station, all in addition to the focus of attention: the newborn in a state-of-the-art incubator. Green said the hospital decided to invest in the amenities after a Harvard Medical School study showed this type of environment often resulted in infants needing less ventilator support and fewer days of oxygen, tube feeding and hospitalization
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