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LAKEPORT, Calif. – In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Sutter Lakeside Hospital (SLH) declared Friday, Oct. 15, as Pink Glove Day.
Patients, family members and visitors alike saw SLH employees in high-traffic patient care areas wearing the pink gloves beginning on Friday and continuing through the weekend.
“I’ve worked on raising money for breast cancer since I was 7 years old,” said James Huston, Materials manager at Sutter Lakeside Hospital. “Cancer has affected my family personally as well as many of my fellow workers here at Sutter Lakeside.”
Huston, who is responsible for procurement services at SLH, ordered the pink gloves from Medline who donates a portion of the each box purchased to breast cancer awareness.
“We are in the health care business and this disease affects entire families,” Huston said. “Anything that we can do to promote research to eliminate or find a cure, we should do. If that means we have to wear pink gloves, we will wear pink gloves.”
Huston continued, “We are hoping to make this an annual event for Sutter Lakeside, and we hope that it grows from pink glove day to pink glove week and then ultimately to pink glove month.”
Ideas from SLH employees have already begun pouring in as to other ways to bring awareness to breast cancer.
The director of medical imaging, Don Pifer, has decided to stock the pink gloves in the mammography suite all year long.
“Breast cancer does not affect families only in the month of October. It happens every day,” said Pifer. “We want our patients to know that we are always committed to breast cancer awareness. Pink is here to stay!”
The medical imaging department at SLH offers digital mammography and breast MRI scans. If you would like to make an appointment or if you have any questions, please call us at 707-262-5030.
At Sutter Lakeside Hospital, pink is here to stay!
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Dr. Smith said the Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center now has access to large national clinical trials covering most types of cancer. They can enroll a patient for treatment in as little as 24 hours. Since the trials are National Cancer Institutes approved, Medicare and most insurance companies also cover them.
“Most trials do not involve the use of placebo unless there are no approved treatment options” Dr. Smith, a medical oncologist and hematologist emphasized. “We will be able to add our patients to national studies of promising drug treatments involving thousands of patients. Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center patients will get treatment available only in major cancer centers.
“Only 3 percent of patients in the United States are placed on clinical trials, and this is a shame because they are not being offered the best treatment available. Only through participation in clinical trials are we going to find cures for cancer,” he added.
Dr. Smith noted that one clinical trial drug “puts calcium back in the bones to make them stronger so there is less pain and fracturing in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. “We have lots of treatment options, but can now offer those, plus something new that has shown promise.” For example, other trials for breast cancer offer promise of new drug treatments added to standard treatment.
Oversight of the clinical trials for local patients is rigorous, according to Dr .Smith. “UCSF, our clinical trial affiliate, and the National Cancer Institutes Review Board will be looking over our shoulder at every patient enrolled in one of trials.”
The UCSF affiliation, initially set for five years, further enhances the services of the Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center by providing coordinated access to a comprehensive array of treatment options at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is one of the nation’s largest clinical and
research cancer programs.
The Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center, opened in November 2009, and is a 12,500-square-foot facility dedicated to outpatient cancer care using the most advanced technology and a commitment to whole-person care. It is part of the new Johnson Pavilion that was funded by $26 million in community
contributions and includes the Trinchero Surgery Center.
For more information, visit www.napavalleycancercare.org.
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This is a follow up to the seminar last spring, new students are welcome also.
It will run Tuesdays and Thursdays for the first three weeks of November at 7 p.m. in the fellowship hall.
The church is located at the corner of Park and Hill, right off Highway 29.
This seminar is free.
On Nov. 11 there will be a special guest speaker, Dr. Harold Waldrip, a well-known diabetic educator.
This dynamic speaker and author comes to us from Australia. Dr. Waldrip has three master's degrees, one in diabetes (he is a diabetic himself). He is the author of the book “Living with Diabetes.”
For further information call Sheri at 707-349-5016.
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The CCDF provides child care subsidies for 1.6 million children in low-income families each month and works to improve the quality of child care in states, territories, and tribes across the country.
“Early childhood development is a key priority for this administration,” said David A. Hansell, acting assistant secretary for children and families. “The creation of an Office of Child Care will strengthen the quality of child care and maximize the program’s effectiveness in achieving its dual goals of supporting employment for low-income families and promoting healthy development and school success for children.”
The OCC, which will replace the current Child Care Bureau, will elevate child care issues within ACF and facilitate direct collaboration with the Office of Head Start and other key agencies on a wide range of intersecting program and policy matters.
In addition to working with early childhood programs the OCC will work to expand the number of high quality early learning and school age care choices for working families, and continue to provide funding for states, territories and tribes to provide child care assistance to low-income families and improve the quality of child care.
For more information on the Office of Child Care visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb/.
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