Spending Christmas inside a hospital certainly isn't easy. Many patients would like to be just about anywhere else, rather than confined to a hospital bed during the holiday season.

But hospital staff members understand just how tough it is to be a patient in a hospital during Christmas. And they've decided to take matters into their own hands.

You can't always avoid the need for a hospital visit during the holidays. After all, an emergency is an emergency, and your health must always come first. But that doesn't mean a visit to the hospital must be filled with dreariness.

Check out these incredibly inventive and creative Christmas decorations that hospital staff members have taken upon themselves to put up.