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JANUARY 2020

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Be a Proactive Patient and Your Own Best Advocate
February 6
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Dr. Cochrane will be providing an Ask the Doc at Kay Ceniceros
29995 Evans Rd

Sun City, CA 92586

 

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Hospice of the Valleys is thrilled to announce that we have received 1st Place in the Press Enterprise Top Workplace Small Business category!

Hospice of the Valleys employees have participated in the confidential employment surveys from Press Enterprise since the Top Workplace program started six years ago. The Press Enterprise considers this the "Oscars of HR."

Hospice of the Valleys staff and volunteers are so honored to have received this award, being the only company to consistently be in the top five places since the Top Workplace program started in the Inland Empire.

World Cancer Day

Dr. Leslee B. Cochrane

Executive Medical Director

Dr. Leslee Cochrane - Hospice of the ValleysFebruary 4th was World Cancer - aimed at uniting the world's population in the global fight against cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute approximately 38.4% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetime and in 2018 there were an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer diagnosed in the United States and nearly 610,000 cancer related deaths. It is estimated that there are currently more than 15.5 million cancer survivors in the United States and that number is projected to top 20.3 million by 2026. In addition to the tremendous cost of human suffering caused by cancer ti is estimated that over 147 billion dollars were spent on cancer related treatments in 2017 alone.

Cancer is a disease that affects the whole person: mind, body and spirit. The goal of treatment is to cure whenever possible; and to treat aggressively when a cure is not possible. Each patient faces a unique battle based on the specific details of their disease and no two cases are the same because no two people are the same. There may come a time during this battle when the burden of continuing to attack the cancer is causing more problems than benefits. When this happens, it may make more sense to change the focus of treatment from attacking the disease to "attacking" the symptoms . Providing comfort through the aggressive management of symptoms is the chief goal of Hospice care.

Hospice of the Valleys is a local non-profit hospice which has been serving cancer patients in our community for over 35 years. Our goal is to provide the very best quality of care to each of our patients because that is how we would want our family to be treated. We achieve this compassionate care with the help of a knowledgeable interdisciplinary team who work together with the patient and family to understand their goals of care and then develop a unique plan of care tailored to meet their specific needs. Expert physicians and nurses make home visits as needed to address physical symptoms such as pain, nausea and difficulty breathing. Other team members including social workers assist patients and their families by providing support to manage the financial and emotional stressors often associated with cancer. Spiritual care providers are also available to participate in providing spiritual support to patients and families as requested in addition to providing bereavement care. If you would like to learn more about Hospice of the Valleys, you can check us out on the web at: hospiceofthevalleys.org; or feel free to call if you have any questions as 951-200-7800. It would be our pleasure to assist you.

Scribblings at the Start of a New Year: 2020

By: Dr. Lynn Euzenas

Director of Spiritual Care & Bereavement Services

Dr. Lynn Euzenas - Hospice of the ValleysOn New Year's Eve I sat in the quiet and scratched out some thoughts on a faded yellow pad.

2020. Make me kinder this year. Help me to turn off the news feed and silence the 24-hour news cycle... as if it were more important than these things! Quell my nagging disappointments in the current human condition and spark me to kindle the fires of warmth with others, to celebrate the blessings of human compassion and insight, to raise the laughter which erases rancor. Help me to be more simple.

Let me appreciate the miracle of life all around us and stop tripping over my own cycle of thoughts. Help me to slow down. Smell some roses. Appreciate the thorns as teachers but not things which keep me away from the rose's beauty. Help me to spend more time listening to babies laugh.

Let me skip more, dance badly, and play more clumsily. Let me hug more spontaneously and dry a tear with more gentleness. Let me sign loudly and out of tune and not care about the performance. Help me to be more gentle with others, and with myself.

Help me not be afraid to grieve authentically, and to feel profound feelings, and know they deepen my soul. Help me to find solace in a friend or in a single solitary candle. Lead me to pray more often. Let me affirm again and again, we are never alone.

May I clear the clutter away and dig through all the layers of unimportant things until love may be found. May love be the be all and the end all for this new year, for each one, for everyone, for this world.

Happy New Year to all.

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