{"id":161366,"date":"2026-04-09T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:27:07","slug":"hospital-employee-runs-wendells-welcome-wagon-after-life-changing-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161366\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital employee runs &#8216;Wendell&#8217;s Welcome Wagon&#8217; after life-changing accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey &#8212; It was a miracle when Wendell Sweeney walked away from a life-changing accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Now, he walks with a new purpose: to deliver comfort and joy to patients with the help of his &#8216;Welcome Wagon.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sweeney is a member of the Guest Services team at Jefferson Health Washington Township. His primary job consists of greeting guests and checking them in at the Silvestri Tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But Sweeney also got tapped to pioneer a new patient care cart program as well. It became known as &#8216;Wendell&#8217;s Welcome Wagon.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He keeps it stocked with hygiene products, crossword puzzles, custom activity books, TV guides, and more. The items are donated from co-workers, patients, and Sweeney himself. Everything is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see what this new purpose means to Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For more information about <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffersonhealth.org\/locations\/washington-township-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jefferson Health Washington Township, visit their website.<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey &#8212; It was a miracle when Wendell Sweeney walked away from a life-changing accident.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15065,72050,4509,14704,6111,38387,915,69,71,70,13364,64874],"class_list":{"0":"post-161366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-care","9":"tag-cart","10":"tag-donations","11":"tag-employee","12":"tag-hospital","13":"tag-kindness","14":"tag-new-jersey","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","17":"tag-philadelphia-news","18":"tag-washington-township","19":"tag-wendells-welcome-wagon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}