Cancer Patient, 10, Leads Charge To Make Hospital Kid-Friendly

LOS ANGELES (CBS) Sabrina Frey has the ability to see things through rose-colored glasses, and as a young cancer patient, that's been crucial in her healing.

Diagnosed with liver cancer last year she spent months in Mattel Childrens Hospital UCLA. It was her home away from home.

But, she didn't think the environment was very kid friendly. So she decided to do something about it.

Ten-year-old Sabrina launched a campaign to make the sterile white walls of her hospital more inviting to children.

First step, she dressed her room up in the colors of a rainbow. Then she turned her sights on the hospital's playroom. But then she saw workers repainting the walls white, and it sent her off the edge, Sabrina's father Bill Frey said.

Sabrina began a petition, which she had everyone around her sign, asking the hospital to not make her floor so white and kid-unfriendly. That petition went all the way to David Feinberg, CEO of the UCLA health system.

"We missed the boat. We built this billion dollar hospital," Feinberg said. "But from a kid's perspective it didn't look right and if we were repainting to keep it looking clean and new, we were picking the wrong colors. We literally changed course."

Because of Sabrina, the hospital is going to paint the walls in pastel colors, murals for an around the world, frames so the kids can put there own art up and keep creating an environment that's all their own.

The hospital says they won't stop until Sabrina says they've done enough.

"I just feel really proud of myself and really happy for everybody that one little petition could help change this hospital," Sabrina says.