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26 communiTy news JTnews . www.JTnews.neT . friday, ocTober 1, 2010 Hospice program takes its services out of its home eric nUsbaUM assistant Editor, JTNews In April 2009, a law passed in Olympia paved the way for the Caroline Kline Galland Center and Affiliates to provide Washington State’s first Jewish hospice service. Now, after six months offering the service inside its own residences, Kline Galland has taken Jewish hospice to the broader King County community. The program currently serves a fluctuating number of between 10 and 20 patients, only a handful of whom live outside Kline Galland residencies. But that number is expected to grow to about 40, which is the program’s legal cap on patients. An application for a certificate of need granting Kline Galland the right to serve unlimited patients is pending. Jewish hospice care is in high demand, said Kline Galland hospice administrator David Brumer, especially when considering that most hospice care is provided for elderly patients. “We’re talking about people who still are coming from the pogroms, the Holocaust, war-torn Euope,” Brumer said. “The level of trust becomes paramount.” But the Jewish dimension of the service goes beyond a name and reputation to establish trust. Kline Galland’s hospice service is Jewish from its foundation. “It’s not enough to have a rabbi or chaplain coming in at the end,” said Brumer. “It has to be that the entire edifice of our program has this [Jewish] backbone.” Kline Galland’s hospice service is available to the community at large, but it brings the same Jewish approach to all patients, one that Brumer insists is unique. “We serve the larger community, but the philosophical, spiritual, theological value system is Jewish,” said Brumer. “And that tradition is about valuing life.” The current Kline Galland staff of 12 people includes doctors, nurses, therapists and more, and will grow in size as the program does. However, that may not happen immediately. “It’s high quality, so we’re building very slowly and methodically,” said Kline Galland CEO Jeff Cohen. And as Kline Galland’s hospice program does grow, Cohen expects significant interest from non-Jews. The program will work in cooperation with clergy from other faiths to provide as much comfort as possible to patients and their families. Families are a CouRTESy KLINE gaLLaND Kline galland Hospice Services staff celebrates the news that the Community Health accreditation Body has accredited the program. crucial part of the equation, Cohen said. “When we provide services, we not only provide services to the patient, but spiritual counseling, general counseling, and a support system for the family,” said Cohen. A growing cadre of carefully screened volunteers provides some of this support, helping with various elements of the hospice service. This can mean anything from providing respite care when a caregiver or family member is busy or needs a break, to helping around the office with clerical work, to most often simply providing companionship. “Often in people’s final weeks, months, they want to talk,” Brumer said. For family members who want to talk, Kline Galland has begun a drop-in grief support group; the first session will run on Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. from Oct. 6 to Nov. 17. W PORt tOWNSeND Page 6 about the proposal to put together materials and host panels with speakers from Seattle-based pro-Israel organizations. Presented with more information, Bakin said, “people could make decisions for themselves.” Jacobs said the failed attempt at a boycott made a clear statement that the co-op board “very clearly didn’t see their role as arbiters of issues of foreign policy.” The vote was important, he said, because it stopped any momentum that might have come from two small co-ops in the same region in such a short period. “Passage would have given energy to those folks who seem set on portraying Israel as an apartheid genocidal state, and I think this demonstrates that when a community really looks at the issues and really thinks about it on both sides, the communities reject the boycott proposals,” Jacobs said. Gideon Lustig, Israel’s deputy consul general for the Pacific <strong>Northwest</strong> who came to Port Townsend to urge the board to stay out of the highly charged political debate, agreed. “When you get people really taking part in the decision-making and getting the information, or making sure that they have enough tools to make the decision then you really see that BDS is being thrown out or not accepted,” Lustig said. “That’s the significance, that this time the community made sure that they knew that they had the information.” W M.O.t Page 10 business-ideas contest on the Oprah show. Sari didn’t make the cut, but QVC producers were delighted with her idea. She was inspired to move ahead. It probably helps that Sari comes from an entrepreneurial family. Her father has his own consulting business and when Sari was a teen her mother opened up a small book store, which quickly expanded. “My mother worked seven days a week,” remembers Sari. “Her business put me through college.” Sari herself worked full time while building her business. Her break came when Target took an interest, selecting “Sippi Grips” for their showcase of parentinvented products. National exposure has pushed BooginHead to surpass $1 million in sales this year. Sari says she’s fortunate that Microsoft Be our facebook friend @ /jtnews & jew-ish Following months of discussion both in and out of the co-op and in the pages of The Leader, many of those involved agreed that there had been healthy discourse on a difficult international issue and that the discussion likely would continue. Board chair Gibboney said the boycott was related to an important human need, “the need to align our daily actions with our own personal moral compass, and that’s going to look different for everyone,” she said, “but it’s something that is not surprising to me in the membership of a co-op of people that join together because they have decided where their food comes from, that it matters.” <strong>After</strong> the vote, Rivera Goldstein said she was glad the conversation was respectful, though she expressed disappointment with the outcome. “I think the board took the easy way out, but we will continue to educate the community. I hope the co-op will at least label the products so the customers can make an informed decision,” she said. Bakin said that though the vote is in the past, the issue won’t go away anytime soon. “I feel like there’s still work to be done,” she said. “I feel that there’s some healing to be done.” JTNews editor Joel Magalnick contributed to this story. allows her to juggle both her work responsibilities and that Matt, the press box announcer for the San Francisco 49ers, is able to be home with the kids most of the time. (Sidebar: Matt’s dad, Larry, grew up in Seattle and attended Garfield <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong>.) The family is very happy here in “Bay Area Number Two,” and with their congregation, Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue. “Thankfully, it’s right down the street.” Sari and Matt both relax by working out regularly and Sari is a self-confessed “TV junkie.” And Matt has started a business, too, Voice of the Box, producing instructional videos for schools that have sports management training programs. Both businesses are on the web, of course, at www.booginhead.com and www.voiceofthebox.com. follow us @jew_ish for jtnews & jewishdotcom for jew-ish.com
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