Southern Hills Hospital NICU In The Halloween Spirit

Southern Hills Hospital is getting ready to celebrate Halloween, and they're not leaving anyone out. The hospital staff dressed up the littlest of their patients in pumpkin costumes and shared the photos. And they're so precious! And a sweet gesture for the babies who will be spending Halloween in the hospital and not at home.

Southern Hills Hospital opened its doors in 2004. They currently have 265 beds and employ 1,400 physicians and another 1,200 medical employees. The establishment has always been great about celebrating important days, and important people, in our community. They recently celebrated National Food Service Employee week with a tribute on their Facebook page and showed their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing pink in their photos.

The hospital staff further got into the Halloween spirit this year by decorating the NICU like a pumpkin patch to elaborate on the Halloween theme, news3lv.com reported. You can see some of the photos that Southern Hill Hospital shared of our little Las Vegas babies.

https://news3lv.com/news/local/gallery/southern-hills-hospital-nicu-patients-get-in-the-halloween-spirit

And, of course, looking at these sweet faces just left me wanting more. I went down the rabbit hole of babies in costumes. Cause, how can you not? It's so fun to see kiddos dressed up like ghosts, goblins and our favorite superhero.

I didn't get professional Halloween photos done when Z was a baby. Being a new mom was tiring enough. I certainly didn't have the energy to do the whole lights, camera, costume thing. And now I am totally bummed I didn't because these photos are so sweet! I'm sure the parents who were more forethinking than I am are glad they went through the trouble. Oh well, there's always senior prom. :)

Thank you to Southern Hills Hospital for sharing their photos of the newborns in the NICU. And here is more adorableness for you. Happy Halloween!

–Wendy Rush, 96.3KKLZ Las Vegas

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A list just came out of the best places to celebrate Halloween this year. And three places in Clark County landed in the top ten! The study is the ninth of its kind by SmartAsset, an online resource that provides consumer-focus financial information. The test measured 146 cities in the United States across ten metrics. The study measured Halloween festiveness, safety, weather and family-friendliness.

The safety aspect measured new Covid cases, violent crime and property crime. 43 cities in the United States fell below the national average in violent crime and 40 cities fell below the national average for property crime. There were 28 cities that landed below the average for both types of crimes, giving them the highest safety scores for Trick-or-Treaters.

The western states prevailed in many areas, especially weather. Arizona, California and Nevada ranked high on the list for the most comfortable Trick-or-Treating temperatures. Those scores helped all three states have three cities each in the top ten.

Arizona scored highest for Halloween weather along with family-friendliness and safety. California came out ahead for weather and festiveness. And the Battle Born state nailed the categories of Halloween festiveness and safety. Average Halloween temperature was not the only thing considered in this study. Average precipitation was also looked at. Which really helped Las Vegas, since we're usually dry as a bone (sorry, not sorry) on Halloween.

The number one city on our list scored highest for festiveness for things like costume shops and Halloween candy stores. Out of 10,000 business, 54 costume shops were counted and 9 candy stores were counted. Candy stores included establishments that sold confectioneries and nuts. Costume shops counted included clothing accessory stores, formal wear and costume rental stores, and other clothing stores. Family-friendliness measured the percentage of people under the age of 14, among other things.

In the list of 146 cities, Las Vegas proper didn't make the top five (she landed at #6), but two places in Clark County did. In fact, they came in at #1 and #2! Here are the top 5.

–Wendy Rush, 96.3KKLZ Las Vegas

Fontana, California came in at #5 on the list of Best Places To Celebrate Halloween. Scores (out of 100): Family Friendliness: 90.37, Safety: 59.38, Halloween Weather Index: 87.21, Candy and Costume index of 66.67.

Chula Vista, Ca landed at #4 on the list of Best Places To Celebrate Halloween. Family Friendliness index of 66.01, Safety score of 70.79, Halloween Weather Index: 94.19, and a Candy and Costume index of 73.33.

Gilbert, AZ grabbed the #3 spot on the list of Best Places To Celebrate Halloween. They scored incredible high on Family Friendliness and Halloween Weather indexes (100 out of 100 each) and got a 91.88 on safety. They would have been a shoo-in for the #1 spot but they were dragged way down by their lack of Candy and Costumes stores. They only got 33.70 on that one, which brought down their overall score.

Coming in at #2 on the list of Best Places to Celebrate Halloween is Henderson, NV. Scores (out of 100): Family Friendliness: 70.25, Halloween Weather Index: 82.95, Candy and Costume index of 98.89. And Henderson landed the top spot for safety with a score of 100.

And the #1 spot on the list of Best Places to Celebrate Halloween goes to North Las Vegas, NV. With a Family Friendliness index of 81.87, Safety score of 88.78, Halloween Weather Index: 82.95, and a Candy and Costume index of 98.89.