{"id":224596,"date":"2026-05-08T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:49:44","slug":"waimea-hospital-celebrates-pet-therapy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224596\/","title":{"rendered":"Waimea hospital celebrates Pet Therapy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAIMEA \u2014 A special celebration was held at Queen\u2019s North Hawaii Community Hospital as staff and visitors gathered to honor and thank the hospital\u2019s four-legged volunteers as part of National Pet Therapy Day.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities included treats for humans and pets alike, along with a proclamation from Hawaii County Mayor Kimo Alameda proclaiming April 30 as Pet Therapy Day, a specially baked dog cake, and goody bags for the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members got to visit with the specially trained animals, thank them for their service, and take selfies with their favorite teams.<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s North Hawaii Community Hospital\u2019s teams visit with patients, visitors and staff, bringing comfort, healing and joy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in training and registering their pet as a therapy animal team can learn more at petpartners.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAIMEA \u2014 A special celebration was held at Queen\u2019s North Hawaii Community Hospital as staff and visitors gathered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-224596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}