Your gift to the Rogel Cancer Center’s Patient and Family Support Services program will enable us to offer services that address the mental, spiritual, and physical effects of cancer, including to those in financial need. The program includes art and music therapy, spiritual care, meditation and mindfulness coaching, support groups, and much more. Together, we can help patients focus on what matters most: healing.
Hearing the words “you have cancer” can be one of the most difficult times in a person’s life. The Rogel Cancer Center is committed to supporting each patient through their unique journey. Patient and Family Support Services (PFSS) is a special set of programs that transform the care experience by addressing the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical effects of cancer.
PFSS offers services that include art and music therapy, spiritual care, meditation and mindfulness coaching, support groups, a program that assists parents in explaining their diagnosis to their children, and much more. Thanks to gifts from donors like you, we are able to make many of our services available at no cost to patients and families.
Today, we are providing many of these interventions virtually, and patients appreciate how easy it is to participate from home. During the pandemic, we all experienced the challenges that are common for cancer patients. Because cancer treatments often result in suppressed immune systems, some cancer patients have always had to limit their activities, wear masks in public, and practice social distancing. Our services address feelings of isolation and despair by building connections and resiliency.
In everything we do, our goal is to reduce the burden of cancer, which can take many forms throughout diagnosis and treatment. We reach out to each patient to assess their needs and match them with programs and services that can meet those needs. Reducing cancer’s burden is all about identifying possible sources of distress for patients and families — and developing strategies to address them.
“When we can say to a patient, ‘We have something to help you with the anxiety, the worry, the living in the fear of the unknown,’ because philanthropy is covering the cost of staff and resources, I think that is the highest integrity of a gift,” says Donna Murphy, director of Patient and Family Support Services. “These programs would not be possible without the support of our community.”
On this Giving Blueday, please consider making a gift to the Rogel Cancer Center’s Patient and Family Support Services.
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