Student Fashions Necklaces As Gifts For Hospital Staffers

Kai Greenberg made necklaces for hospital staff members.

Kai Greenberg, an 11-year-old safety patroller at Discovery Key Elementary School, recently surprised the nurses at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital with homemade creations.

As a service project, Greenberg found some upcycled items on a community web site and decided to decorate and fashion the pieces into necklaces for the staff at the hospital.

“[Palms West Hospital] has a special place in our heart,” said his mother, Denise.

Greenberg had surgery and was treated in the PICU there when he was 14 months old.

“Throughout the pandemic, we know the nurses have worked extremely hard and give everything. I never could do what they do,” she said. “We just thought it would be sweet to do something for them.”