Sargent didn't get a chance to visit with a therapy animal during her hospital stay, but she remembers thinking how nice it ...

Members of UCHealth gathered at Medical Center of the Rockies for the second Blessing of the Paws ceremony, an event first ...

Medical Center of the Rockies hosted "Blessing of the Paws" for a second year, blessing the health care system's Northern ...

"Pepper" started training in April last year with a goal of eventually bringing smiles to the faces of patients.

Ahead of her stop at UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies Wednesday afternoon, MCR Chaplain Beth McKee found an old hymn ...

Pepper is a 1-year-old bernadoodle and Lutheran's newest therapy dog. She and other dogs give patients and their families ...

A clinical trial found that spending about 10 minutes with a therapy dog reduced patients’ anxiety in a pediatric emergency room.

Therapy dogs play such an important role in helping people mentally, whether they’re working with ill people in hospital, young children learning to read at school, seniors in retirement homes, or ...

Haywood Regional Medical Center welcomes Maverick, a four-year-old Newfoundland therapy dog, as its newest volunteer.

"As to almost coming up on a year, I just can't believe the energy and how well-received it is," Melissa McMillen, Butterfly ...

Pepper started training in April last year with a goal of eventually bringing smiles to the faces of patients.

"Someone could be sitting and getting the worst news of their life and (the dogs) walk in and the mood instantly changes," Sargent said about Dax's hospital visits. The therapy dogs can sense who ...