b'Before her diagnosis in June of 2021, Laura loved her highly active and independent lifestyle. She was an aerobics instructor and enjoyed the blessings of having a close-knit and athletic family who did everything togetherher mother Deanna and her brother Benoit. (Sadly, her father Nick, aA Grateful Ovationregarded neuro-radiologist in Flagstaff, passed away in 2017.) Meaningful Applause For I was in top health, recalls Laura. FitnessYour HonorHealth Care Teamwas a priority in our lives, so the diagnosisWhen you or someone close to you receives came as a total shock. exceptional care, it feels good to express your Laura underwent various treatments,gratitude. The very act of recognition for your care including a blood marrow transplant, atteam creates a sense of meaning, closure and even HonorHealth Cancer Transplant Institute,contributes to healing. Now, you have a new way to part of the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Centerstand up and cheer your HonorHealth care teamat the Shea Medical Center. The InstituteOvation, the HonorHealth Foundation Grateful provides leading-edge care for a widePatient Program.range of non-cancerous blood disordersExceptional, compassionate care is our goal and and blood malignancies, including variouswe love enthusiastic displays of appreciation from types of leukemias, lymphomas andour patients and their families because the care myelomas.and services received were made possible, in part, through the generous philanthropy of past grateful Abraham Kanate, MD, a hematologist,patients. You could say that patient gratitude creates medical oncologist, and Lauras primarya circle of care for our community.attending physician, worked alongsideOvation offers a way to recognize the healthcare other physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners,heroes who made a difference in your journey. Your pharmacists and social workers to provideOvation in their honor could be words of gratitude the most comprehensive and innovativeor a charitable donation to the clinical program that care. In part, what makes the Institutemade a difference for you or a loved one. unique is they meet weekly to discuss allDespite the challenges in healthcare, we hear their patients treatment plans and come tohundreds of stories of lives touched by the warmth mutual decisions about their care as a team. and care of a particular nurse, the lifesaving intervention of a trauma team, the innovative In what she describes as a blessing,approach of a physician, remarks Debra while her family took turns visiting duringStevens, the Foundations senior vice president of COVID-19 restrictions, Laura developed acommunications and donor relations. Everyone second family in the nurses and doctorsappreciates hearing they directly impacted delivering her treatment and care. This newsomeones life in a positive way and Ovation is an family not only listened and offered moraleasy way to deliver that message to your care team. support, but helped Laura manage theBeyond gifts to programs, every nurse and physician rigors of treatment and avoid potential sidehas been moved by the donation of a former patients effects and complications. words of gratitude for the special care they received under their nurturing wings.The Foundation will Because of COVID-19, only one familyensure that your words of tribute will be presented to member at a time was allowed, reminiscesthe caregiver or care team youre honoring.Laura. But I never felt alone because of the constant care of the nurses and doctors.If you would like to say thank you Talk about people who knew what I waswith an Ovation, learn more by visiting going through! HonorHealthFoundation.org/ovation or just continued on next page scan the QR code with your mobile device.HonorHealth Foundation Magazine 17'