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NOVEMBER 2017

Longmont United Hospital Volunteer Newsletter

Laura President’s Message

Jose Rodriguez Lopez, Volunteer Board President I would like to invite you to join in honoring Volunteers who passed away during the last 12 months. On Monday, November 6th, there will be a short memorial service at 1:30 pm in the Matisse/DaVinci Rooms. Afterwards tea will be served. Holding a memorial service each year is a rare opportunity for us to be thankful, share memories and stories and honor someone you volunteered with or knew. Like you, these honorees volunteered to benefit the LUH community. These people (and you) chose LUH as a means to address human, environmental and social needs. In respecting the rights, dignity and cultures of others, they promoted human rights, equality and comfort for our patients, their families and the LUH staff. I feel very honored to be able to formally honor them and their commitment and dedication, just as I informally honor you as volunteers. I regularly received an invitation to this Memorial Service in past years. Last Fall I was finally able to attend the service. I was gratified to learn that many families and friends attended. People were there for many reasons - sharing memories, speaking to other volunteers or simply receiving a white rose on behalf of the family. I encourage you to join me at the upcoming Memorial Service to honor the volunteers who passed away during the last 12 months. Some volunteers had been part of LUH for many years while others only shared a short time volunteering at LUH.

I hope to see you there. As always, thank you for all

that you do.

Laura’s Note Laura F. Kinder, CVA Director, Volunteer and Spiritual Care Services Every day volunteers enrich the lives of us at the hospital and in the hospital through quick thinking and generosity of action.

Two morning Welcome Desk volunteers, Kaitlin Knowlden (a junior volunteer) and Josie Rudoff, alerted Security by pushing the panic button when they heard the distraught words of a patient coming in to be admitted.

Richard Macomber, during his shift as 4th floor patient ambassador, received M&Ms from staff because he spent more than an hour with a patient, helping the patient eat his breakfast and lunch and by sitting with the patient in a very calming way.

An unnamed Surgery Waiting Room volunteer was nominated for the DAISY Award. This award is intended for extraordinary nurses. The patient felt that this volunteer did an outstanding service for his family.

Another patient nominated one of our caring clowns, Huggy Bear aka Anand Sharma, for the DAISY award citing that there are many people who “do not have nursing degrees but are just as critical to our recovery. Anand brought sunshine and laughter into the hospital” for this patient.

At this time of Thanksgiving, I want you all to know that your time and service here is greatly appreciated. You are another set of eyes for patient safety and another pair of hands helping our patients and staff.

It is with extreme gratitude that I thank each one of you for being a LUH volunteer!

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In Memory of Volunteers 2017

Gift Shop Holiday Open House Thursday, November 16

th

9am – Midnight

Friday, November 17th

9am – 7pm

20% Discount

Excluded items: Candy, snacks, sundries, flow-ers, balloons, greeting cards and Willow Tree.

Save shopping time and effort. Come visit us to for Holiday Decorations, Gifts, Jewelry, etc. Use your VISA, Master Card, Employee Charge or Cash.

See you there!

Gift Shop Under Construction The Gift Shop will be closed for business on Tuesday, Nov. 7th to start demolition on the South wall of the Shop. A new wall will be installed to showcase our Apparel and Accessories. Please pardon any inconvenience to your shopping on Wednesday & Thursday as they complete the project. We’re planning everything to be back in place looking fantastic midafternoon on Thursday, Nov 9th. We look forward to having everyone stop by the Shop to see this exciting new display. HAPPY SHOPPING!

We want your feedback! We will use your reasons to help recruit new people into your service area and for

other marketing venues.

We are collecting your inspirations for being a LUH volunteer in the service you have chosen. Please complete this sentence with your name attached:

What inspires me to be a volunteer in (your service area) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

My name: _______________________________

Dee Grose Charlene Bish

Eleanor Flanders

Susan Wickesser

Doris Gill

Phyllis Hoagland

Earnest Kollar Mary Macomber

Bill Huss Judith Laird

Mary Gray Stella Gronbeck

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The Roseto Effect Rich Bledsoe, Chaplain

Have you ever heard of Roseto, Pennsylvania? Probably not. It is a small Italian, slate quarry town in the mountains of Pennsylvania. What now seems a long time ago, the 1950s, this little town became the center of medical research. The town was an anomaly. Dr. Stewart Wolf, from the University of Oklahoma Medical School, and John Bruhn, a sociologist from the same University, discovered that: "...no one under the age of 55 had died of a heart attack or showed any signs of heart disease. For men over 65 the death rate from heart disease in Roseto was roughly half that of the USA as a whole. The death rates from all causes in Roseto, in fact, was 30-35% lower than expected...“ The team then looked for peptic ulcers. Roseto residents “didn't have any of those either. These people were dying of old age. That's it." Why? "This was the 1950s, years before the advent of cholesterol lowering drugs and aggressive methods to prevent heart disease. Heart attacks were epidemic in the United States"

What was the explanation? Was it location? Nearby towns had death rates from heart disease three times that of Roseto. Was it diet? The hard-working quarry workers loved fat fried things, cooked in lard, and 41% of their calories came from fat. "Nor was this a town where people got up at dawn to do yoga and run a brisk 6 miles. The Pennsylvanian Rosetans smoked heavily and many were struggling with obesity."

"…the secret of Roseto wasn't diet, or exercise or genes or location. It had to be Roseto itself. As Bruhn and Wolf walked the town, they figured out why. They looked at how the Rosetons visited one another, stopped to chat in Italian on the street...they learned about the extended family clans that underlay the town's social structure. They saw how many homes had three generations living under one roof, and how much respect grandparents commanded. They went to mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and saw the unifying and calming effect of the church. They counted 22 separate civic organizations in a town of just under 2000 people." And also, "There was no suicide, no alcoholism, no drug addiction, and very little crime. They didn't have anyone on welfare."

The secret was community. There is a lesson in this, somewhere…

Calendar of Events 2017– 2018

Nov 1 ....... Orders for Wreaths, Poinsettias etc. Nov 6 ....... Volunteer Memorial Service Nov 6 ....... Lights of Love - sales begin Nov 16-17 ... Gift Shop Sale Dec 5 ….. . Tree Lighting/Christmas Party Dec 8 ....... Giant Bake Sale Dec 31 ....... Membership Dues for 2018 Jan 24 ....... Volunteer Recognition Luncheon

Planetree Recognition

The Planetree International Conference was held in Baltimore this year with approximately 750 people in attendance. Planetree is in more than 700 organizations in 24 countries. Attendees from Turkey, the Netherlands, Brazil and Canada were present. LUH was redesignated this year for the third

time at the level (there are also a silver and

bronze recognition). Only 7 hospitals in the world have achieved redesignation three or more times. St Anthony North also achieved their first designation, making two of the 17 Centura hospitals Planetree Designated. We are the only Planetree Designated Hospitals in the state of Colorado.

LUH also received the Person Centered Care Innovation Award for Planetree Walking Rounds (PWR). At the ceremony, Britt Warner, PA was given her award as a 2017 Planetree Scholar. Mary Pancheri was also a Scholar, but was not at the conference. These nominations are made by LUH staff. Mango was honored as a Therapy Animal finalist.

Reminder!

Your 2018 membership dues are due December 31, 2017 to the LUH Volunteer Board of Directors. They are $10 per year or Life Membership for $100. Pay by cash or check, please write checks to LUHV. The Volunteer Office will be mailing your dues notice in November to your home address.

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Fundraising Pat Dudley, Chair

Past Sale

By the time you read this newsletter the Best Little Craft Show in Town will be over and we will have had a great show. I will let you know in the next Volunteer Voice how we did and what a great time we had.

Future Sales – CHRISTMAS! The Holidays are an opportunity for us to thank the LUH Staff for their hard work and for making our sales so successful. With all our Christmas activities we need additional volunteers to help us show our appreciation to them. It is not hard work and you don’t have to have any extra skills - except an ability to show up. Best of all, you get to meet new people that are likeminded and enjoyable. Please join us.

Beginning in November we will be taking orders of Christmas wreaths, table decorations and

poinsettias. See the flier on page 6 to order. We sell out every year so get your order in early.

Monday, November 6th- Lights of Love: Lights and Stars are sold in memory of or in honor of a

loved one, family or friend. These are for the trees outside where the whole city can enjoy them. Lights and Stars are sold in the Volunteer Office and at the Gift Shop. Lights are $10.00 each. Stars go on top of the trees and are $100.00 each. Cash and checks only.

A Christmas tree decorated with ornaments with the names of the honorees will be in the Main Lobby beginning December 1st. Be sure to stop to find the ornament of your honoree.

Tuesday, December 5th - Tree Lighting Party: Our annual raucous Christmas Party will begin

at 5:30pm in the LUH Gallery. Of course, Santa Claus will be there to visit with all the children. The Longmont Choral will entertain us with beautiful Christmas carols and music. Get into the Christmas Spirit and join us for refreshments. Everyone is invited – especially children and grandchildren! This is an easy way to see Santa and give all kids (and some of us are still kids) a lively Party.

Friday, December 8th - Giant Bake Sale: We need your baked goods! You will be receiving a

letter asking for help to make our bake sale a giant success.

Dog Strollers! Brooke Terpening, TAILS

Nothing is more adorable than a small furry doggy face in a stroller. Children giggle. Some think the dogs are spoiled, but a therapy dog in a stroller benefits the patient, dog, and handler.

Small therapy dogs are difficult for patients to see and interact with on the floor. Bedside petting is easier in a stroller plus the handler doesn’t have to lift the dog. Older dogs get tired quickly so a stroller lets them see more patients than they otherwise could. Some handlers rely on the extra support that the stroller provides.

The earliest TAILS stroller dog team was Boone and Connie Fredman. Boone visited LUH walking on three legs. When Connie realized the long corridors were becoming difficult for Boone, she pushed him in a wheelchair. When he could no longer get in the wheelchair, she made a cart for him, continuing to visit LUH from 2003 - 2008.

Higgins, Eileen Wittfelt’s Cairn terrier, was another pioneer stroller dog. As Higgins got older, he would lie down when tired, and Eileen had to carry him for the rest of his visit. A stroller solved the problem for both teammates, and Higgins rode in his stroller until he retired on Christmas Eve 2013 after ten years of service.

Dog strollers have come a long way from Boone’s homemade cart. They are not just repurposed baby carriages - today TAILS dogs must visit in specially designed dog strollers. Eileen visits with her two Australian terriers, Fiona and Barney, who follow in Higgins’ paw-prints. Suzy-Q, Debbie Hollard’s 13-year-old Corgi, draws attention from children in her queenly stroller perch. Carol Martin rescued her two TAILS dogs - Tucker, a Bichon Frise, and Lilly, a toy poodle. When Lilly developed arthritis, Carol got a stroller. Now Tucker and Lilly love stroller rides and are a huge hit.

Tucker & Lilly

Boone on homemade cart

Higgins as Santa

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Volunteer Voice Newsletter

Editor…… ... Ann Weber Publisher…..Gloria Armstrong To place an article in the Volunteer Voice, contact the Volunteer Office at 303-651-5205, or email to luhvolunteeroffice@centura.org or Ann Weber at annweber4@comcast.net

Special Thoughts ~

Trudy O’Cleary, Corresponding Secretary

Sympathy Cards to:

~ Sreeya Kairamkonda, for the loss of her grandmother in India

~ Sarah Jane Snyder, for the loss of her sister

2 - Get Well Cards were sent To have a Sympathy, Thinking of You, Get Well or 50th/60th Anniversary card sent from the Volunteers, please send requests to Trudy O’Cleary at tocleary@yahoo.com or call (303) 772-3615. Reminder: Due to HIPAA Privacy Rule we cannot

publish Get Well or Thinking of You card NAMES!

Classes Offered at LUH

Stop the Bleeding, Save a Life

Saturday, November 18 9:00 - 10:30 am There is a registration fee of $25.00 for each class for everyone, including employees, volunteers, family members and community.

Heartsaver CPR/AED (2 year certification) Manual required; check one out from the Resource Center.

Saturday, December 9, 2017 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Free to employees and volunteers; $45.00 for community and family members.

Heartsaver First Aid (2 year certification) Manual required; check one out from the Resource Center.

Saturday, November 11, 2017 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Free to employees and volunteers; $45.00 for community and family members.

Call Program Registration at: 303-485-4184

November Birthdays!

Karen Zeng 1 Michelle Tran 3 Mary Baisley 4 Marie Emmett 4 Nancy Lewis 4 Elaine Musselman 5 Beverly Boltz 6 Leo Diaz Aguilar 6 Stephanie Elliott 6 Mary Lennert 6 James Quadracci 6 Irene Rankin 9 Judy McGuire 10 Evelyn Snell 10 Dawn Ryan 18 Teresa House 20 Judith Drieth 21

Ann Freeman 21 Jeanne Bohn 22 Upasana Shrestha 22 Daniel Nehls 23 Cara Martyr 23 Luther South 24 Maxine Mestas 25 Kirsten Pedersen 26 Marybeth Flynn 27 Mary Monkman 27 Donna Parrish 27 Angel Steelman 27 Jacqueline Delier 28 Joy Grundy 29 Gail Elias 30 Richard Macomber 30

Congratulations

Fundraising Continued

If you have any questions about any of the fund raisers or if you would like to help, please let me know: 303-776 7198 or patdudley40@gmail.com.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Save the Date The Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon will be held On Wednesday, January 24th at the Plaza Conference Center. Official invitations will be mailed out in December.

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Provided by the Career Development Center and Durans’ Hobby Acres

Orders are due by 12 noon

on Friday, Dec. 1st in the

Volunteer Office

Pick up items Friday, Dec. 8th

from 10:00am – 12:00pm

NAME: ________

DEPARTMENT: _______________________

PHONE #: ________

DATE:_______________________________

Payment type_________________________

Wreaths and Centerpieces

2017 Holiday Longmont United Hospital Volunteer Fundraiser

WREATH $20

HOLLY PLANTER $20

POINSETTIA $20

LONG & LOW $25

POINSETTIA $20

POINSETTIA $20

ITEM QUANTITY PRICE

LONG & LOW ($25) ________ _________

HOLIDAY WREATH ($20) _________ _________

HOLLY PLANTER ($20) _________ _________

RED POINSETTIA ($20) _________ _________

PINK POINSETTIA ($20) _________ _________

ORDER TOTAL:_____________

PAYMENTS ARE CASH , CHECK , PAYROLL DEDUCTION

AND CREDIT CARD. PAYROLL AND CREDIT CARD

AVAILABLE MONDAYS, 11/13-20 AND 27 BETWEEN

12:00 AND 4:00pm IN THE VOLUNTEER OFFICE.