PRIME TIME
30 November 2016
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Dr. Gerard Muraida
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n 1978, President Jimmy Carter
declared November as National
Hospice Month. The hospice
National Hospice Month
movement has grown from serving
just a few thousand patients per year
to more than 1.5 million Americans
per year. The number of hospice
programs has also increased from the
first Connecticut Hospice in 1971, to
well over 5,000.
The hospice movement in North
America has grown primarily as a
result of the work of five individuals:
Dame Cicely Saunders, Florence
Wald, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross,
Balfour Mount and Josefina Magno.
Saunders is considered the mother
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Sandoval County
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Presents
EARLY PIONEER TEACHERS OF NORTHERN
SANDOVAL COUNTY
Recognition and appreciation to the families of the early pioneer
educators of the remote areas of northern Sandoval County will be
highlighted by Martin Valdez and Esther Cordova May. These
areas include Cabezon, San Luis, Cuba, La Jara, Los Pinos and other
isolated settlements. Generations of teachers arose from families
such as the Gurules, Lobatos and several others who overcame
hardships that are difficult to imagine in today's digital age. These
educators taught basic academic skills, practical life skills and set
many students on the right path to being prosperous. Also, each of
these families produced numerous individuals who contributed to
the ongoing educational history of our communities in the early
days of public education.
All educators will appreciate this presentation and all members of the extended educators families from these rural communities are encouraged to attend.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13th—2 PM
Meeting is free to members $ 5 to the public
From Hwy 550 Turn north on the gravel road beside the
new I-Hop. Continue to the end .
This announcement sponsored by the Town of Bernalillo
of the modern hospice movement,
founding St. Christopher’s hospice
in London. She was trained in three
disciplines: nursing, social work
and medicine. It was this unique
experience that enabled her to
develop the concept of “total pain.”
Her “total pain” model of end-of-life
care embraces social, emotional and
spiritual suffering as well as physical
pain. This changed the medical
establishment’s traditional model
of pain during end-of-life care and
altered the face of dying around the
world.
Wald served as dean of the Yale
University School of Nursing and is
credited with bringing the hospice
movement to the United States.
She established the first American
hospice unit in Branford, Conn.,
in 1971, after having attended a
lecture by Saunders at Yale. She
became enthralled by the prospect of
providing new ways to care for the
dying. “We need to cure sometimes
but care always,” she has been
quoted as saying.
In her later years, she established
a hospice volunteer training program
in the Connecticut Correctional
Facilities. Since its implementation,
more than 150 inmate volunteers
have been trained to be hospice
volunteers within state correctional
facilities. She found that inmates
serving as hospice volunteers gained
confidence from the situation. “It
shows that even in this terrible
situation, something good can
happen, a sense of possibility
emerges,” she once said.
Kubler-Ross is best known for
her work on the