FY12 Annual Report - St. John Health System

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24 Living Our Values throughout Our Communities “I feel rewarded when I have an opportunity to make a difference in others’ lives.” Urging early cancer detection close to home The month of March has become an annual personal challenge for Cheryl Robb- Genevich, a certified nurse anesthetist at Providence Hospital. Recognized nationally as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, March offers Cheryl, a Stage III colon cancer survivor, the chance to teach people the importance of early detection. It was through a routine screening colonoscopy in 2006, when she was 52 and two years past the recommended age to have one, that she discovered her cancer. “If I had only had my colonoscopy at age 50, I probably would have avoided the chemotherapy treatments,” she regrets. Today, Cheryl uses her story of procrastination to educate others. In partnership with the American Cancer Society, she sets up booths at work and at metro-Detroit businesses to spread the word about early detection. According to Cheryl, shown here at a Relay for Life event in 2012, “If I can prevent one person from developing a full blown cancer, my goal has been accomplished.” —Tamara Khazbieva, St. John Macomb-Oakland, Oakland Center
Helping his homeland a world away Oscar Ong, a certified nurse anesthetist at Providence Hospital, grew up in a poor family in the Philippines, where resources were scarce and comprehensive healthcare was often hard to come by. He knows first-hand what this can do to a community, so in 2005, he and his wife Debbie, a Providence Park nurse, recruited a few colleagues to travel to Davao City to provide surgical treatment to people in need. Since then, the annual missions have resulted in more than 1400 procedures performed free of charge, from cataract and general surgery to open-heart surgeries and craniofacial operations. Switching uniforms for a one-year deployment “To those much is given, much is expected,” says Oscar, pictured with members of the 2012 mission team and some of the children they’ve helped. “Our patients give us so much more than we can provide for them, and it is always a humbling and rewarding experience.” Now known as Operation Care Abroad (OCA), the mission is now a 503 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, and all team members are volunteers, offering their clinical expertise, medications, and supplies at no cost. They also pay their own travel expenses. “We are so grateful to our colleagues who give of themselves so generously,” says Oscar. “It makes a huge difference in people’s lives, and it wouldn’t be possible without a lot of support and energy for our cause.” Noreen Diedo had been a registered nurse for 11 years when she decided in 1984 to join the Army Reserve. “Back in the day, you could sign up for the Reserve and rarely be deployed anywhere. But with recent wars and conflicts, everything’s changed.” In Summer 2012, with 28 years of Reserve duty under her belt, the nurse practitioner from St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital suited up for a one-year deployment to Kosovo, where she joined the NATO-led international peacekeeping mission that began in 1999. It was her first mobilization. Inside the U.S., Diedo specializes in gerontologic nursing and monitors the care and safety of adult and elderly patients on a very busy medical-surgical unit. In Kosovo, she would be focusing on a much different population with very different needs. In addition to the potential for traumatic physical injuries,“emotional wounding can occur, and those emotional scars can be huge.” Diedo plans to return to the hospital when she wraps up her duty in Kosovo, but she’s quick to explain that “You’re always a Soldier first. I’m planning for what I’ll do when it goes away,” saying she might work with military veterans. “One weekend a month, two weeks a year, really turns into much more of a commitment than that. First you become part of the military, and then it becomes part of you.” 25
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