Original Blog Entry: Hospital Staff Brings Prom To Sick Teen

truesee — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:14:30 GMT

May 11, 2009 3:27 p.m. EST

Shannon McGregor

Indianapolis, IN (AHN) - An Indianapolis hospital threw a makeshift prom for a teen patient whose illness prevented her from attending her school's dance.

Hospital staff and Community Health Network Foundation members transformed Community Hospital North's atrium into a restaurant Saturday night for a pre-prom dinner for high school senior Leah Westrick, the Indianapolis Star reported.

Westrick has been suffering for three weeks with a non-life-threatening infection at the hospital. Her boyfriend and close friends attended the mini-prom.

Fishers High School principal even showed up to crown Westrick and her boyfriend, senior Gabe Hulecki, prom queen and king, the UPI reported.

Westrick has been hospitalized since April 18 after getting an E. coli infection on a spring break trip to Mexico.

Ryan Chelli, a hospital spokesman, said a clinical manager at the hospital, nurse Amy Sprague, had the idea to bring the prom to the patient.

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