Therapeutic Recreation
Healing Children Through Leisure and Recreational Activity
Therapeutic Recreation
At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists use a unique skill set designed to help children, teens, young adults and their families develop and use leisure in ways that enhance their health, functional abilities, independence and quality of life.
Therapeutic Recreation Benefits
- Adaptive bike evaluation
- Adaptive recreation skills
- Adjustment to disability
- Animal assisted therapy
- Attention, memory, perception, orientation
- Assertiveness training/communication
- Cardiovascular and respiratory functioning
- Chemical dependency education
- Community re-entry
- Community resource education
- Coping and life skills
- Developmental leisure skills
- Diabetes exercise education
- Leisure education
- Physical conditioning and exercise activity/fitness
- Pain management
- Recreation participation
- Socialization
- Strength endurance
- Stress management/coping skills
- Time management
- Wellness training
Our Clinics
Therapeutic Recreation maintains both inpatient and outpatient clinics on the main campus of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, as well as at other locations in Ohio. Please note the locations below and follow the links for maps and directions.
For clinic questions, call the main Clinical Therapies clinic number at (614) 722-2200.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Main Campus
700 Children’s Drive
Columbus, OH 43205
Our Services
Inpatient (Acute Care) and Outpatient Services
Physician referrals are required for inpatient and outpatient care.
We partner with many departments and programs to offer therapeutic recreation services, including, but not limited to:
- Behavioral Health
- Burn
- The Heart Center
- Endocrinology
- General Pediatrics
- Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (Rumination/Bariatric)
- Hematology, Oncology & BMT
- Neurology
- Orthopedics
Meet Our Leadership
Megan E. McKim
Megan McKim is the Clinical Therapies Behavioral Health Clinical Manager at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Slawomir Sarna
Slawomir Sarna is the Inpatient Therapies Program Manager at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Therapeutic Recreation Conference
Save the date for the 2022 Therapeutic Recreation Conference on Friday, October 7. Please make plans to join us in person at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Conference Center or virtually.
