It`s their stories that matter
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It`s their stories that matter
WINTER 2014 It’s their stories that matter At age 77, Coastal Hospice patient Eddie O’Riely has a memory as sharp as a tack and good stories to tell. And he loves telling them. O’Riely still has a twinkle in his eye, but cancer has left him with less energy than usual. A lifelong bachelor, O’Riely was living alone in Brooklyn, NY, where he was born and raised, until recently relocating to Salisbury to stay with his niece, Kathryn DeRosa, and her husband who are caring for him in their home. Coastal Hospice has come in to help. DeRosa is herself battling cancer, and says she and Eddie are “helping each other out.” They are going through boxes of old photos Continued on Page 2 Be an Angel this year and include Coastal Hospice in your holiday giving Last year, Coastal Hospice cared for nearly 1,000 patients and families on the Lower Shore and provided more than $515,000 in charity care. It’s you, our Angels, who make it possible for us to provide care and comfort to patients who lack the resources to pay. Coastal Hospice patient Eddie O’Riely served in the army in 1958 with Elvis Presley. Here’s how your generous gift helps: $40 pays for 1 day of medication at Coastal Hospice at the Lake $75 pays for 1 month of medical equipment for a patient at home $100 pays for 1 month of oxygen for a patient at home $200 pays for 1 month of medications for a patient at home $650 pays for 1 day of care at Coastal Hospice at the Lake $1,000 pays for 1 week of hospice care at a patient’s home When you make your gift, you can remember or honor a special Continued on Page 2 Fiscal year 2013/14: A year of challenges and flexibility A Message from President Alane Capen Coastal Hospice has always consistently placed the needs of our patients first, while running an efficient, fiscally responsible non-profit agency. During our last fiscal year, Coastal Hospice provided expert holistic care to 988 patients and their families and more than 600 palliative consultations to inpatients at PRMC. Through it all, we receive high ratings when we survey those whose loved ones have been in our care. Last year, Medicare stepped up the pace in its efforts to gather data, evaluate services and reduce costs, intensifying its reporting requirements of hospice providers. We now report, among other things, every time a medication is filled, every visit from some of our disciplines (not all), and every time a nurse walks into the room at Coastal Hospice at the Lake to perform a medical task. I am pleased to report that Coastal Hospice has kept pace with these changes, successfully adapting our processes. We have been proactive in educating staff members, adapting software programs and in testing our reporting systems ahead of Medicare deadlines. Together, our clinical staff and information technology team have managed each transition smoothly. Medicare’s goal is ensuring all hospice providers deliver excellent care. We welcome the opportunity to share openly information about how well we serve our patients and their families. Thank you for your ongoing support. We pledge to continue to provide the Lower Shore with patient-centered hospice and palliative care to bring peace and dignity for those we serve. Page 2 | Coastal Hospice News Ask Dr. Waris Medical Director Q: What is palliative care and when do I need it? A: Palliative care (pronounced pal’-lee-uh-tive) is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain and stress of illness, whatever the diagnosis. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and family. Curative treatments for cancer and other diseases can cause symptoms such as pain, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness. Palliative care helps alleviate these symptoms, improves the patient’s ability to tolerate medical treatments and offers the patient the strength to carry on with daily life. Palliative care is a holistic approach that becomes an extra layer of support. During treatments, for virtually any illness, a visit with the palliative team can help. Since pain, stress and other symptoms can profoundly affect quality of life, the earlier palliative care begins, the better for the patient. Palliative care is not the same as hospice care, which is meant for people in their final months who no longer seek curative treatments. Palliative care is available anytime during a serious illness. It is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance, but we never turn anyone away due to inability to pay. Our palliative care team assists both inpatients and outpatients at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. For more information, call the PRMC inpatient team at 410-543-4716 or the outpatient team at the Richard A. Henson Cancer Institute at PRMC at 410-912-2888. Ask Dr. Waris is a regular feature of Coastal Hospice News. Send your questions to [email protected] or write to Coastal Hospice, Ask Dr. Waris, PO Box 1733, Salisbury, MD 21802-1733. All questions become the property of Coastal Hospice and may be used in future publications. Continued from Page 1 Be an Angel... Our Angel ornament will place your loved one’s name on our special Angel trees on display throughout the Lower Shore Angel in your life. We’ll print their name on a red Angel ornament. Then, we’ll lovingly display the ornament during the holiday season on one of our Angel trees in the four counties we serve. Your gift to Coastal Hospice this joyous season is proof that the world is indeed inhabited by Angels. To be an Angel this year and make your gift, please go to Coastal Hospice.org. Continued from Page 1 Patient from Brooklyn shares life stories of their big Irish-American family, and are proud of their heritage, which includes a great-grandfather from Brooklyn who was wounded at the battle of Antietam. DeRosa pulls out a photo of O’Riely as a young man in his Army uniform. He was drafted in 1957, at the same time and into the same division as one of the most famous draftees of his generation, Elvis Presley. After completing basic training in Fort Hood, Texas in 1958, the division headed to Brooklyn to catch the boat to Germany. The rock star sailed with the rest of his Army mates, receiving no special treatment along the way. “Elvis was more handsome in real life,” O’Riely says. “Down to earth. Real nice Southern boy. No airs about him whatsoever. He had KP and guard duty just like everybody else.” O’Riely asked Elvis to sign a few autographs for him, including Eddie O’Riely one for his elderly Irish grandmother. “She was old school,” he recalls. “She asked me, ‘Is he that guy that was on the Ed Sullivan show waggling? I don’t want that foolish thing’.” For almost 25 years, O’Riely worked for Verizon in New York City as a telephone man, and one of his assignments was installing modems in the World Trade Centers. He retired in 2001 just months before the towers fell on 9/11 as he watched from the roof of his Brooklyn home. “We had worked in the telephone building right across from the World Trade Center,” he says. “Some of the debris went through the telephone building. As a rule, we have seven or eight people working there, but everybody was out at the time. There definitely would have been casualties.” Before moving to Salisbury and coming under hospice care, O’Riely wasn’t eating well and had lost more than 20 pounds. Under hospice care and with his niece and nephew’s good cooking, O’Riely is gaining some of his weight back. “I just didn’t feel good,” he says. “You could have a beautiful steak in front of me, and I could eat maybe three pieces. It would just fill me up. Maybe it was being alone or tension, God knows what it was. But I just couldn’t eat.” “If he gets a hankering for something, we try to cook it as soon as we can,” DeRosa says. O’Riely says he is being “well-taken care of.” “The group from hospice has been wonderful. Just to know that somebody’s there … it’s a good feeling. My stress is gone now.” Among O’Riely’s plans is a trip that reminds him of a beach town he loves — Coney Island. “I want to see Ocean City,” he says. O’Riely plans to visit the Firefighter’s Memorial on the Ocean City Boardwalk while he’s there to honor the firefighters from his hometown of Brooklyn. Coastal Hospice News | Page 3 Blues on the Bay event puts campaign to build Coastal Hospice at the Ocean over halfway mark Coastal Hospice’s Blues on the Bay event was a rousing success. About 200 supporters attended the event at Macky’s in Ocean City on Sept. 24 that raised $25,500 for the campaign to build Coastal Hospice at the Ocean in Berlin. Blues on the Bay 2014 put Coastal Hospice over the halfway mark towards the goal of building Coastal Hospice at the Ocean, a hospice residence and community outreach center that will offer beds for patients who are not safe at home, palliative care, counseling, grief support, and community wellness programs. Macky and Pam Stansell generously opened the doors of their restaurant once again as hosts of this important event. The Stansells and many others in the community continue to show their commitment to Coastal Hospice and the future vision of the Coastal Hospice at the Ocean residence. Dirk Widdowson, Reese Cropper, Jr., Alane Capen and Gee Williams We receive positive ratings from family evaluations* Would you recommend this hospice to others? Yes, definitely. Coastal Hospice Maryland hospice peers 91.7% 86.6% National hospice peers EXPENSES SOURCES OF INCOME 98.0% 95.6% National hospice peers 96.0% Did the family have enough instruction in patient care? Coastal Hospice National hospice peers From the FY2014 Annual Report Yes, always. Coastal Hospice Maryland hospice peers Gayle Widdowson, Susan Purnell and Linda Guerrieri 87.7% Was the patient treated with respect? Maryland hospice peers Debbie Abbott and Cam Bunting, members of the Coastal Hospice at the Ocean Campaign Committee Yes. Program: Hospice & Palliative Care 97.2% Support: Management and General 95.4% 96.4% *Family Evaluation of Hospice Care (FEHC), developed by the National Hospice & Palliave Care Organization and tested by an independent research team. Support: Fundraising and Thrift Shop Patient Services Thrift Shop Fundraising and Contributions Investment Income Page 4 | Coastal Hospice News COASTAL KIDS SUPPORTIVE CARE It’s all about teenage fun: pizza, video games and the Ravens Robert Peterson is 13 and a typical teenager who likes eating cheese pizza, playing video games and cheering for the Baltimore Ravens. An iPod in his hand streams his favorite YouTube videos. Not everything about him is typical, though. Robert has cancer. Today, he is propped up on pillows in the living room of his Salisbury home watching TV, covered with a furry Ravens blanket. His large family surrounds him with love, tickling him until he giggles. Former teachers and classmates from Bennett Middle School come to visit him often. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore referred Robert to Coastal Kids Supportive Care, the pediatrics program of Coastal Hospice, so his grandmother, Toni Peterson, would have support in caring for him. “At first, I said no to hospice,” Toni says. “I told them I’ll be okay. I was used to doing things myself.” Now, Toni depends on the support Coastal Kids gives her. “Our nurse, Kristen (Forster), makes me stronger every day. I have someone to talk to. She is the nicest person, and Robert has gotten close to her and very comfortable with her.” “When I first met Robert, he hid his face behind a pillow and did not want to even look at me,” Kristen Forster says. “Now when I visit, he smiles and laughs, and we are building a great relationship. His grandmother, Toni, is an amazing woman, and watching her care for Robert (and her other family members) is truly an amazing sight to see. There is an abundance of love and support surrounding Robert and his family. It has been a blessing to meet Robert and is an honor for me to be able to support him and his family during this journey.” Toni talks about the day Robert took a turn for the worse, and she didn’t know what to do for her grandson. “It was Kristen’s day off, but she came over and sat with me for more than two hours. The support she gives me is the most wonderful thing. Anytime I have a concern, I can call her, and I feel better, because she knows what to do. And she explained to Robert Peterson in his school picture from 2013 me what’s going to happen. I am prepared now,” Toni says. Nurse Kristen arranged to have Robert’s medication adjusted so he’d feel better, secured a wheelchair for him, and provided other things to make day-to-day life easier. “She’s on things so fast,” Toni says. “And she always asks me ‘Do you need anything?’” Robert was able to go trick or treating on Halloween, dressed as a skeleton, and is looking forward to seeing the Big Hero 6 movie. “It’s all about letting Robert have some fun,” Toni says. Save the Date Tim Kennard 10 Mile & 5K Walk/Run March 1, 9:30 a.m., Salisbury University LETTER OF THANKS Years of service awards were presented at the staff meeting on Nov. 4 at Deer’s Head Hospital. Among those receiving awards were (from left to right) (top row): Mark Massey, Lisa Lynch, Pernell Seawright, Kaye Hearn, Nancy Stewart. (On stairs): Sandy Fisher, Lisa Hall, Donna Richardson, Kawania Maddox, Valerie Beckwith. (Front row): Shelley Wilson, Sharon Hutchison, Doris Ludicke, Christine Belanger, Angela Cherrix, and Karen Tipton. “Our family cannot express the feelings and gratitude we have for Coastal Hospice. The hospice workers are angels of mercy; they give dignity to the patient and care for both the patient and family. They are quick to respond to the needs of medications, supplies and equipment. “Coastal Hospice gives you a sense that you’re not by yourself. “We have asked that donations to honor Bob’s passing be sent to Coastal Hospice.” ~ Diane McGraw, Ocean Pines Coastal Hospice News | Page 5 Hope and Healing with Horses helped children with loss Coastal Hospice’s “Hope and Healing with Horses” event for children who experienced the death of someone close to them was held on Saturday, Oct. 4 at the Kindred Spirit Farm in Salisbury. The event was open to both hospice and non-hospice families. The event provided the children with an opportunity to explore the emotions associated with their loss. They groomed and rode horses and also shared their feelings with other children who had experienced similar losses. While the children were busy with these activities, the adults with them received guidance in helping them. Coastal Hospice patient care volunteer David Duitscher (center) receives the Mary Gladys Jones Volunteer of the Year Award from the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore Board Chair Melody Nelson and President & CEO Dr. Doug Wilson on Nov. 10 at their annual luncheon. Coastal Hospice nominated Duitscher for the thousands of volunteer hours he has provided our patients. Duitscher is also a volunteer chaplain at Deer’s Head Hospital Center in Salisbury. The foundation’s Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding, sustained, and unselfish contributions in the field of direct community service. 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Rose Mr. Bartow Van Ness Mr. Richard E. Waters Mr. William Yanuk Coastal Hospice at the Ocean Founders Circle G iving $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 A N D A B OV E The State of Maryland Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Stansell, Jr. Coastal Hospice Thrift Shop Volunteers The Richard & Patricia Hazel Charitable Fund G iving $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 and above Mr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Shockley The Richard A. Henson Foundation, Inc. The Humphreys Foundation, Inc. G iving $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 and above Ms. Fifi Hiotis-Blackburn Mr. Reese F. Cropper, III The Estate of Shirley Reeves The Homer & Martha Gudelsky Foundation Nonprofit Coastal Hospice Inc. PO Box 1733 Salisbury, MD 21802-1733 U.S. Postage paid MAIL MOVERS 410-742-8732 www.CoastalHospice.org Board of Directors Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary Treasurer Past Chairman President Glenna J. Heckathorn Byron D. Braniff Malcolm W. Peverley Lorie L. Phillips W. Richard Holloway, Jr. Alane K. Capen Diana Barber Ingrid A. Parker Andrea K. Baier, MDEdwin A. Rommel III Michael P. Dunn Walter “Macky” Stansell Roger L. Harrell Kathryn H. Washburn Barbara W. Jackson Dirk W. Widdowson, Esq. Barbara Long Coastal Hospice News Editor Elaine J. Bean UPCOMING BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT ACTIVITIES These groups provide a time of respite and a safe place to express feelings in the grieving process. We offer these activities at no cost to any adult who has experienced the death of a loved one, even if they were not a patient of Coastal Hospice. For information, call 410-742-8732. Dorchester County Somerset County Support Group – Dorchester County Library, 303 Gay St., Cambridge First and third Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Information ~ Rev. Janelle Beiler 443-783-0222 Worcester County Dinner Social Group – Kay’s at the Airport, Cambridge November 3 and December 1 at 5 p.m. RSVP ~ Doug Albert 410-228-7171 Wicomico County Lunch Social Group – all at 1 p.m. November 12- Bob Evans, Rt. 13/Naylor Mill Rd., Salisbury December 10 - Sage Diner, 917 S. Salisbury Blvd., Salisbury RSVP ~ Lynette Chase 410-901-2292 Support Group – Community of Joy Church, 302 South Blvd., Salisbury Second and fourth Tuesdays at 1 p.m. Information ~ Rev. Sharon Hutchison 443-978-0218 Lunch Social Group – Peaky’s, 30361 Mt. Vernon Rd., Princess Anne November 4 and December 2 at 12 p.m. RSVP ~ Rev. Elmer Davis 410-726-2583 Lunch Social Group – all at 1 p.m. November 20 - Atlantic Hotel, 2 N. Main St., Berlin December 18 - Hooked, 8003 Coastal Hwy., Ocean City RSVP ~ Bob Carson 410-957-1133 Support Group – Ocean Pines Library, Ocean Pines, November 13 and December 11 at 11 am. Information ~ Rev. Bob Miller 410-251-8163 Support Group – Salem United Methodist Church, 500 2nd St., Pocomoke City November 13 and December 11 at 11 am. Information ~ Rev. Howard Travers 443-783-1730