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Kids facing serious illness deserve to play.
We’re not another teal kids’ charity. GameChanger built the world’s only networked Xbox hospital system — plus in-room consoles, hospital game rooms, VR, equine therapy, and comfort gifts. Our intervention isn’t a brochure. It’s joy, delivered to a bedside.
“Thanks to GameChanger, we created what we believe is the world’s most advanced safe gaming network in any hospital — serving over 350 kids a day.”
Katy Welkie · CEO, Primary Children’s Hospital
5,550children across 59 trials: a Cochrane review — the gold standard of medical evidence — found distraction, including games and play, is the best-supported way to ease the pain and distress of needle procedures.Birnie et al., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2018)
17studies of game-based and virtual-reality distraction found large reductions in children’s pain and anxiety during medical procedures.Eijlers et al., Anesthesia & Analgesia (2019)
AAPThe American Academy of Pediatrics calls play essential to healthy development — and urges doctors to “prescribe” it.American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics (2018)