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12 2010 TEHAMA COUNTYMEDICAL GUIDE St. Elizabeth Hospice A member of CHW W hen Tehama County residents and their families are faced with life-limiting illness, St. Elizabeth continues its mission of compassionate care and comfort to help them through the last steps of their life journey. A sister service to Mercy Medical Center Redding Hospice, St. Elizabeth Hospice provides physical, emotional, and spiritual help in the supportive surroundings of the patient’s own home, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What is hospice? Hospice care focuses on the patient rather than the disease, and highlights quality rather than length of life. It affirms life and does not hasten nor postpone death. St. Elizabeth Hospice nurses help their patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones. Hospice care can be given in the patient’s home, a hospital, nursing home, or private hospice facility, but in the United States most hospice care is given in the home, with a family members serving as the main hands- on caregiver. When should you ask for hospice help? When patients can no longer benefit from curative treatment and life expectancy is estimated to be about six months depending on disease process and other variables, the patient, their family, and the doctor decide together when hospice services should begin. Hospice is sometimes not started soon enough because the doctor, patient, or family member feels it sends a message of no hope. This is not true. There are patients who “graduate” from hospice when their condition improves or the disease goes into remission, or the patient chooses to return to active treatment. Hospice care may be resumed at a later time. St. Elizabeth Hospice Services are here for you and your family whenever you might need us. We are just a phone call away. Call for more information on Hospice or bereavement classes: 530-528-4207 “When you cannot add days to your life, add life to your days.” Donations to St. Elizabeth Hospice through Mercy Foundation North http://redding.mercy.org/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=5100024 help to cover patient expenses. No one is turned away because of an inability to pay. redbluff.mercy.org We are pleased to invite you to our new and spacious office on Elm Street. Exceptional Dental Care With Extraordinary Results! Visit us on the web at www.vanopijnendds.com New patients are always welcome, we look forward to seeing you. 445 Elm Street , Red Bluff, CA 96080 General Family Dentistry, we take great satisfaction in helping you maintain optimal oral health. Our practice is devoted to comprehensive and preventive patient care. Part of our At Cosmetic and commitment to serving our patients includes providing information that helps them to make more informed decisions about their oral health needs. We believe our patients should have as much information as possible in order to make important, informed decisions regarding their Dentistry that provides comprehensive and preventive patient care oral health and treatment options. Our patients are our most important asset, and we strive to develop long-lasting, trusting relationships with all of our patients. We invite you to browse through our website at: www.vanopijnendds.com Be sure to give us a call if you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment. We look forward to seeing you!

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