Wives and girlfriends will be making spring arts and crafts with patients in the hospital’s atrium

 ARLINGTON, Va. – Washington Capitals’ wives and girlfriends will visit Children’s National Medical Center on Monday, April 2, to make spring-themed arts and crafts with patients in the hospital’s atrium. This will be This will be the Capitals second trip to Children’s National Medical Center this season, as Caps players Karl Alzner, Jeff Halpern, Matt Hendricks and Mike Knuble played video games and colored with patients on Feb. 27.

 Ashley Beagle, Carmen Brouwer, Mandy Flemmer, Monika Hybnerova, Megan Knuble, Cynthia Lavoie and Lindsay MacDonald are all scheduled to attend.

 The Capitals players have a longstanding tradition of visiting Children’s National Medical Center and the wives and girlfriends are following suit as this will be the fourth consecutive year they will be visiting the hospital.

 Children’s National Medical Center is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the metropolitan Washington area and is the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta. Serving the nation’s children for more than 140 years, Children’s National is a proven leader in the development and application of innovative new treatments for childhood illness and injury.

WHO: Washington Capitals’ wives and girlfriends will join patients at Children’s National Medical Center

WHAT: Make spring-themed arts and crafts in the hospital’s atrium. Cameras are allowed in the atrium.

WHEN: Monday, April 2, from 11 a.m. -1 p.m.

WHERE: Children’s National Medical Center

111 Michigan Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20010