Therapeutic Gaming & Technology Specialists play a crucial role in supporting Child Life and hospital staff by implementing, managing, and enhancing patient-facing gaming and technology services in the hospital setting. Numerous hospitals recognize the benefits of utilizing video games and related technology throughout a patient’s stay to address normalization, socialization, coping, pain management, and more. The Game Tech Specialist excels in delivering therapeutic experiences through video games and technology while efficiently maintaining the gaming program’s infrastructure.

Tailoring their roles to meet the unique needs of each facility, Game Tech Specialists may extend their responsibilities to areas such as CCTV programming and other hospital-wide media forms. The allocation of hours varies, with some specialists primarily engaged in direct patient care and the rest dedicated to equipment support. Three common versions of Game Tech Specialists include Patient-focused, Equipment/Program-focused, and Hybrid Patient & Program roles.

Child’s Play is proud to have funded 53 Patient Gaming and Technology Specialists and support more than 70 in 30 states and 5 countries.

California Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Rady Children’s	Colorado Children’s Hospital Colorado	Connecticut Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Delaware Nemours Children’s Health	Florida Advent Health Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Nemours Children’s Hospital Orlando Children’s St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Wolfson Children’s Hospital	Georgia Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite
Illinois Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Comer Children’s at the University of Chicago Medicine NorthShore University HealthSystem	Indiana Riley Children’s Health at IU Health	Kentucky Kentucky Children’s Hospital
Maine The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Health	Maryland Johns Hopkins Children’s Center University of Maryland	Massachusetts Boston Children’s Hospital
Michigan C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital	Minnesota MHealth Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital	Missouri St Louis Children’s Hospital
Montana Logan Health Childrens	New York Cohen Children’s Medical Center Elizabeth Seton Children’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital	North Carolina Levine Children’s (Atrium Health) UNC Health
Ohio Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Nationwide Children’s Hospital	Oklahoma Integris Children’s Hospital Oklahoma Children’s Hospital	Oregon OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	South Carolina MUSC Children’s Health	Tennessee Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Texas Children’s Health Dallas Children’s Hospital of San Antonio (Christus Childrens) Dell Children’s Medical Center Methodist Children’s Hospital Texas Children’s Hospital	Utah Primary Children’s Hospital	Virginia University of Richmond
Washington Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital Seattle Children’s Hospital	Wisconsin Children’s Wisconsin	Washington, DC Children’s National Hospital

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Non US based hospitals

Canada Alberta Children’s Hospital	Germany Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital Essen University Hospital	Australia Sydney Children’s Hospital – Randwick The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Kenya The Moi Teaching and Referral Shoe 4 Africa Children’s Hospital	Scotland Glasgow Children’s Hospital