After lymphoma, Denver man launches hospital homies to spread joy

He was transferred to HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s at Presbyterian St. Luke’s for treatment of the tumor, a type of lymphoma.

“He had a very frightening and dramatic presentation,” Dr. John van Doorninck, an oncologist who helped treat Hays when he arrived in 2022, said. “The large tumor in his chest was compressing his heart and some of his respiratory structures, and so it was a medical emergency.”

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