If You Know, You Glow

BrightStart Sanford Achieves Pro Glow Status

How are things at BrightStart Sanford on this fine holiday Thursday? Absolutely Status Glow!

Holiday icon and magic maker Santa Claus was all show and all glow for a visit to patients and families at BrightStart Sanford.

Santa chatted with BrightStart patients and families, and helped distribute gifts carefully curated for all patients.

BrightStart was delighted to welcome Dawn Collier-Hezel RN to our holiday celebration. Dawn is the Peds & OB instructor for Galen College of Nursing. Witnesses say she’s pretty good at throwing snowballs as well.

Once presents and holiday chat time was over the BrightStart crew had a “surprise” snowball attack on Santa! However, it appears that Mr. Kringle left home this morning anticipating trouble. When the chaos broke out, he returned the favor with custom-marked snowballs from a concealed hat.

Thank you …

Helping get this big glow-show lit were Makiah and Hayley, making their comrades from Valencia Elves Union 242 proud! Thank you for joining us!

We can’t help but be touched by the support, generosity and trust of our BrightStart Sanford families. Thank you, we’re grateful to be a part of your family!

BrightStart’s PPEC program uses the exclusive Glow-n-Grow™ formula to provide nursing, therapy and love for medically fragile infants and children. It’s specially developed and applied by the spectacular Sanford team, who deserve a big thank you for all that they do.

There just aren’t enough words to express how much we appreciate the man in red. Thank you, Santa, for the incredible love and dedication you bring to our BrightStart patients, family and staff. We are truly blessed to have you in our family.

Though Santa had to get back to a production meeting (something about a holiday deadline) the festivities continued with glowing accessories and music until it was time for lunch.

Santa Escape Moves

The Tuck™
The Slide™
Each move is followed by
The Scramble™
These boots were made for holiday walkin’. Also jumping. And throwing snowballs. Also they look great.

BrightStart has enjoyed a fantastic week kicking off the 2025 holiday season! If you couldn’t be a part of it all in person, we’ve got just the thing for you. Grab yourself a cup of glow and settle in with our latest photo gallery!