SALT LAKE CITY – After the year we had, even Santa Claus needed a little advantage on Christmas Eve.
That’s why he visited the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City on Thursday night, instead of Friday morning.
He wanted to make sure that healthcare professionals received an early gift.
Santa also visited the Primary Children’s Hospital and the University of Utah Hospital on Thursday.
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He was delivering pizzas and boxes of snacks to health professionals who don’t have time off.
Emergencies do not pay attention to calendars.
“This was the best way to find out how to bring a little joy to people who need to work,” he said.
It’s a Christmas Eve tradition that David Lamb has been doing for years.
Lamb dresses up as Santa Claus and delivers food to healthcare professionals. “You can spread goodwill and joy,” he said. “And I love Christmas.”
Lamb said he remembers how hard his mother-in-law worked for two decades at Dixie Regional Medical Center in southern Utah.
“We were going to spend Christmas in St. George and wait for her to open her presents and come home exhausted because it was work,” said Lamb. “So my wife and I decided that this is what we were going to do. We wanted to bring a little joy and thank them for working.”
Lamb usually bakes and brings these baked goods to hospitals.
However, this year, thanks to that big piece of coal known as COVID-19, he brought pizzas and boxes of snacks.
He knows that nurses and doctors have had a difficult year.
“Our healthcare professionals are under a lot of stress and if we can add a little something to their lives tonight, a little appreciation for what they do, that is good for me,” he said.
In addition, you never know when a chimney trip may require a visit to the hospital.
Maybe Santa Claus is fawning over them, just in case. But even if he doesn’t pay an emergency visit, he knows that doctors are taking care of other patients.
And they won’t be hungry doing that.
“They really appreciate that,” said Lamb. “They appreciate that people remember them.”
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