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p14 tribune september 6 1995 l st hospital patients families helped by bereavement team by julie caspersen staff reporter patients who spend their last months and sometimes their last years at markham stouffville hospital are not only the responsibil ity of caregivers they become family staff and volunteers working with long term care patients at the local hospital bond with their patients as well as the patients families and i friends when a patient dies the staff also feels the loss with patients being here for such a long peri od of time it becomes a sort of family said clin- ical care nurse vreny mathis a member of the hospitals beireavementj team the lines between family patient and staff become blurred after the hospital was in operation for two years staff in the long term care ward felt the need to offer support to family friends and patients said team chair teresa shearer a recreation therapist this need led to the formation in 1992 of the bereavement team which has taken on the responsibility of offering support education and counselling to all parties involved mathis is working with team member rev gord schmidt to pro duce a pamphlet outlin ing the practical steps that need to be taken once a long term care patient has died schmidt said the pam phlet will also serve as a reference guide with a handy list of phone numbers the grieving process doesnt start and end with the death of a patient mathis explained that the staff moves through l the process alongside the family of the patient starting before the actu al death schmidt acknowledged that the emphasis of care usually shifts from meeting the physical needs of a patient to car ing for the emotional side team member pam west supportive care coordinator said one focus of the team has been to make the last few days of a patients life as comfortable as possible we free up the time of the primary nurse to spend time with the patient in the last days she said all of us grieve we feel a sense of hurt and loss murie coulson is a liospital volunteer who spends her time in the long term care ward feeding v patients and helping out with activi ties coulson a member of the bereavement team said she forms strong bonds with fami lies that visit the patients which prompt ed her to join the bereavement team the primary nurse is town of whitchurchtouffvilte the corporation of the town of whitchurchstouffville notice to close stop up and sell turning circles take notice that the corporation 6f the town of whitchruchstouffville intends to pass a bylaw to close stop up and sell the turning circles on gormley industrial avenue more particularly designated as blocks 9 10 11 and 12 on registered plan of subdivision no 65m- 2054 town of whitchurchstouffville and further take notice that the council of the corporation of the town of whitchurchstouffville shall at the hour of 700 pm tuesday october 10 1995 in the council chambers at 19 civic avenue stouffville hear any person who claims that heshe will be adversely affected by the bylaw and applies to be heard dated at the town of whitchurchstouffville this 31st day of august 1995 mrs michele kennedy town clerk town of whitchurchstouffville 19 civic avenue box 419 stouffville ontario l4a7z6 published a first time the 6th day of september 1995 usually but not always the person who is closest to the family of a dying patient in long term care the bereavement team has established a protocol to follow after a patient has died that includes sending out sympathy cards special ly designing for the hos pital the cards might by signed only by the primary care nurse or by all staff who knew the deceased patient three brother andre high school students nicholas sung ray mond wong and talent pun have used their artistic skills to portray scenes of tranquility and beauty the friends painted a dozen water- color landscapes for the bereavement team to choose from four have been made into cards each containing a mes sage of sympathy writ ten by schmidt 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