PHOTO GALLERY: Healing Garden opens at Boone Hospital Center

June 8, 2012 | 4:41 p.m. CDT

Boone Hospital Center celebrated the opening of its Healing Garden on Friday morning. The garden, which was built with around $220,000 in donations, offers a place for patients and families to escape the hospital atmosphere.

Stacy Mahan, left, and Betsy Enochs, Boone Hospital Center employees, look at the bricks in the newly completed Healing Garden on Friday morning. According to Mahan, the financial department where she works purchased one of the bricks. | Yi Gan

Bricks with donors’ names are displayed in the Healing Garden of Boone Hospital Center on Friday. According to Jacob Luecke, media relations manager for the hospital, 280 donors donated around $220,000 to construct the garden. | Yi Gan

Boone Hospital Center celebrates the completion of its Healing Garden. The garden was built for patients and families to have a place outside to get a break from the hospital atmosphere. | Yi Gan