A few months ago, Lisa Branch, CURE Childhood Cancer’s Director of Patient & Family Services, received a call from a hospital social worker asking if CURE would consider taking on a new project. She explained that when a child has transitioned to hospice care while in the hospital, families tend to sit vigil at the child’s bedside, unwilling or unable to leave the room. She asked if we could consider putting together baskets with “comfort items” that could be delivered to each family in this circumstance.
“Of course we wanted to help fulfill this need,” says Lisa. ”My heart broke listening to the social worker explain the situation. Providing ‘Comfort Kits’ is really the least we can do for these families.”
CURE Comfort Kits are baskets filled with items such as snacks, gum, peppermints, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, a coffee mug, chapstick, lotions, soft Kleenex, and other items we hope will offer a small amount of comfort to the families. When the Comfort Kits are delivered to the room, the social workers also place a small cd player and instant hot water dispenser in the room for families to use, both donated by CURE.
If you would like to help with Comfort Kits by donating large baskets or items to fill the baskets, please contact Lisa Branch at lisa@curechildhoodcancer.org or 770-986-0035 ext. 22.
In an effort to enhance our services to patients and families in South Georgia, CURE is thrilled to announce the addition of Kim Osborne to our staff. Kim will act as CURE’s Patient and Family Services Manager in Savannah, focusing efforts on extending CURE’s services to childhood cancer patients who are treated at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Savannah, which services 24 counties in south Georgia.
What are Endocrine Problems?
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Why is having a PCP important?
It’s an unfair race. A young, defenseless child up against an insidious, growing army of merciless cancer cells. Doctors, hospitals, and scientists constantly at the mercy of treatment and research breakthroughs, which are only made possible by the hard reality of financial funding.
