For Immediate Release:

December

02, 2013

Media Contact:

Jennifer Piedra
[email protected]

305-585-7210

786-525-9078

JACKSON KICKS OFF HOLIDAY SEASON WITH ANNUAL SANTA PARADE

Who:

Santa Claus; Hialeah-Miami Lakes High Marching Band; City of Miami Fire Department personnel

What:

Each holiday season, patients and visitors at Holtz Children’s Hospital and Jackson Memorial Hospital are treated to a visit from Santa Claus, accompanied by the marching band from Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School. The band parades around the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center campus, performing holiday favorites and entertaining visitors.

Santa arrives on a City of Miami Fire Department truck, is lifted up on an expanding hook-and-ladder towards the windows of Holtz Children’s Hospital and waves to patients inside the building.

When:

December

03, 2013, 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.

Where:

Jackson Memorial Hospital
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue
Miami, FL 33136

*The finale with Santa, the fire truck and the marching band will take place in front of the Jackson emergency room and the Holtz Children’s Hospital portico on N.W. 17th Street, just west of 10th Avenue.

Editor’s Note:

Media can park in the media lot outside of Ryder Trauma Center.

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Jackson Health System
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue Miami, FL 33136