Leticia Clegg
Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital has added Leticia Clegg as its first certified child life specialist to help young patients better understand their diagnoses and treatments. She helps children who are receiving emergency and surgical care, outpatient procedures such as blood draws, and supports and encourages inpatient children with their treatment plans, including finding fun ways to help them take medications, walk and eat. Child life services at Intermountain Health are supported entirely by philanthropy and community donations and are free to patients. In the first month of child life services, the hospital experienced about a 90 percent reduction in the number of children needing sedatives in the same-day surgery unit. Clegg is one of 70 child life specialists helping care for children at 11 Intermountain hospitals and care sites.
