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New Game Technology Specialist Positions

Child's Play is excited to announce that we approved 12 grants this year for Pediatric Game Technology Specialist (PGTS) positions. This brings our total number of Child's Play funded PGTS positions to 30! These positions are vital in helping hospitals increase the number of games, types of games, and tech solutions they can deploy in the facility.

The following eight hospitals are receiving funding for their first PGTS position:

Dell Children's Medical Center
Riley Children's
Montana Children's
Lurie Children's
INTEGRIS Children's, Baptist Medical Center
Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital
University of Maryland Medical System
Joe DiMaggio Children's

The following two hospitals are growing their team with additional PGTS positions:

Methodist Children's San Antonio
Boston Children's

Lastly, the following facilities applied to extend their grant-funded program one more year. We have learned one year is not enough time for most hospitals to get up and running with a game tech program. 

Cleveland Clinic
Golisano South West Florida

Child's Play is hosting a call on Thursday the 27th at 1:30 PM pacific, 4:30 PM eastern. This call is intended for facilities who are thinking about a game tech or are just in the process of hiring to be able to network and ask questions. We will have representatives from CS Mott and Children's Colorado on the call, both of which have robust PGTS programs. 

Game Tech Interest Call 
Thursday, May 27 · 1:30 PM Pacific, 4:30 PM Eastern
For meeting info contact [email protected]

For those of you looking to get into one of these positions as a career, keep an eye out on our Twitter or watch these hospitals' job postings.

If you would like to learn how important these positions are to children's facilities please watch this amazing video that Children's Colorado put together for us.

These positions would not be possible without your support. If you would like to learn more about how to support our mission, please visit our website.

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