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Please consider volunteering with our non-profit organization, Paws for Healing. We visit local hospitals and assisted living facilities to bring smiles and lessen stress for patients, staff and visitors. Some volunteers go to the local library where children read to the dogs to gain confidence in their reading skills. REQUIREMENTS: Dog must be at least 1 year old, with dog owner for at least 6 months. Dog must be healthy and pass evaluation. Training and mentoring is provided. Schedule to volunteer when and where most convenient for you.

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New Leading Edge Technology at Queen of the Valley – Bringing Advanced Care, Close to Home Since opening its doors, Queen of the Valley Medical Center has been the largest, most comprehensive health care facility in Napa County. From offering the latest in radiation treatments for oncology patients to performing minimally-invasive robotic procedures, keeping abreast of the latest medical advancements is one of our top priorities.

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Innovative New Robotic Knee Replacement Surgery

In January, John Diana, M.D. performed the first Mako robotic-arm assisted total knee replacements at the hospital. During the surgery, a 3D model serves as a roadmap that can be referenced and adjusted if necessary. The robotics technology serves as a guide, ensuring a more predictable surgical experience for the surgeon. “The Mako helps ensure the knee functions optimally and can help patients attain a faster recovery,” said Dr. Diana. “I have noticed that patients who have robotic-arm assisted surgery have more consistent results at six weeks after surgery compared to patients who have traditional surgery.” By controlling the Mako’s robotic-arm, the surgeon can expertly remove damaged bone and cartilage within the pre-defined area and align the knee implant and precisely position it in place. Studies have shown robotic-arm assisted partial knee replacements are two to three times more accurate than manual versions of the procedure and reduce the need for a subsequent surgery.

Minimally-Invasive Surgery for Gynecological, Urological and General Surgeries Queen of the Valley continues to offer minimally-invasive option for certain gynecological, urological and general surgeries using the latest technology in robotic surgery, the da Vinci® Xi™ Surgical System. Advantages of having robotic surgery include: a faster recovery time, minimal scarring and shorter length of stay in the hospital.

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A year ago, the hospital installed a new Large Bore computed tomography (CT) simulator—a device used to “map” the area of the body that needs radiation treatment. The new simulator offers 4D capabilities that allow a series of images to coincide with the respiratory cycle which helps providers visualize internal movement of the tumor and organs. “Tumors move with the patient’s breath,” said James Knister, MD, radiation oncologist at Queen of the Valley. “This new feature provides us with an additional way to capture the location and movement of the tumor and the organs over time. This is especially valuable for tumors on or near organs that move, such as the chest.” In the past, oncologists accounted for the tumors movement by creating slightly wider margins or guiding the patient through breathing techniques during the scan. This new feature provides the care team with an additional way to narrowly target the tumor with radiation and avoid healthy tissue. In addition, the new CT simulator features a 20cm wider bore (or opening) than the model it replaced which increases access and comfort for patients, especially those who are claustrophobic or need more room, and matches the size of the linear accelerator which administers treatment.

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy The hospital recently installed a second linear accelerator that uses the 4D images produced by the CT simulator to perform stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)—a radiation treatment that allows care providers to treat a small area in the body with a high amount of radiation in less time and less appointments. In January, the first patient received an SBRT treatment at the hospital. This treatment can be used to treat various types of cancers, such as early-stage lung cancer or small cancers that have travelled to the brain. “This machine is incredibly accurate at targeting tumors and metastasizes–– The Elekta Infinity® linear accelerator administers it’s a great step forward in radiation treatments in less time to treat cancer. technology,” said James Knister, MD. “Since we are able to hone in so narrowly on the tumor, it helps us focus only on the cancerous areas without disturbing surrounding tissue. This helps to reduce side effects.” Depending on the type of cancer and the patient’s individual needs, patients may only need 3 to 5 treatments, instead of the typical 30 to 35 treatments. This is not only more convenient for the patient, it allows them to begin rehabilitation and start the healing process sooner as well.

Most technology purchases are made possible by the contributions from community members at the Queen of the Valley Foundation. We thank Napa Valley residents for helping us build a healthy tomorrow for the community.

Inspiring the Next Generation In February, 75 high school

students interested in exploring a career in health care, computer science, engineering or robotic technology attended a Career Day at Queen of the Valley. Students met the teams who perform roboticassisted surgeries—like knee replacements and hernia repairs—and even got to test-drive the Mako and da Vinci robots. Care providers shared their educational paths and engineers shared the mechanics behind this technology. Olivia, a senior at Napa High, said that the experience opened her eyes to how engineering can be used to life-saving technology. “When I go to college, I want to study robotics engineering, and this showed me how deeply my work could impact the world.” she said. Julie Lovie, a teacher at Valley Oak High School, said, “It made what I do in class real. For students who didn’t believe coding in robotics relates to anything in the real world, they were blown away,” she said.

This event was made possible by the partnership of the hospital, Queen of the Valley Foundation and NapaLearns.

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In some ways it is difficult to believe that it was less than 60 days ago that Napa County put into effect the mandate to stay at home due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Across the country, and the world, ceasing human contact is showing a positive impact in terms of slowing the speed of the vicious disease. Yet, lives have been lost. Sadly there have been local difficulties. My heart breaks for the families that are being hit hard with the loss of family members, loss of jobs and decreasing business. While we are “Sheltering in Place” (SIP) only essential services are open for business, and the “downtown” business districts in each local town are sleepy, empty and bare. For me it has been surreal to easily find street parking in downtown Napa when I pick up my mail, strange to never encounter traffic when driving up Highway 29 and a bit eerie to walk (while wearing a face mask) through Yountville without a visiting tourist in sight. Our community has rallied in some uplifting ways. Numerous locals with sewing skills have stepped up to crank out necessary (and in many cases quite fashionable)

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face masks for citizens, as well as those working on the front line. Operation: With Love from Home, which traditionally produces care packages for military service members far from home, along with Napa Valley CanDo and the Community Organizations Active in Disaster Napa Valley (COAD), created a “Discover Your Face Cover” program, assembling an army of volunteers that either pick up homemade face mask donations from porches or collect them at drive-through drop offs. The few restaurants, food trucks and caterers — many locally owned and operated — that have been able to stay open have been creative in their take-away offerings. From buckets of fried chicken, to bags of fresh produce, to cocktail kits, to daily specials and family-style meals, restaurateurs have both cared for us, as well as their employees, by revising their business models during these trying times. Several have also cooked for health care professionals.

While salons were not designated as essential, many people that I know (mostly women) would disagree. Therefore some stylists have created “color touch up kits” to go, so that clients can maintain their hair on their own at home. Gyms and trainers are also streaming personal and team workouts live and online. I am in awe of teachers, as well as parents and guardians (who are now teaching at home), that are continuing the education of students at all levels. It simply cannot be easy to suddenly change the entire educational platform and move it online. For working parents, who are either grappling with loss of income or remote working while caring for children: hang in there and stay strong! To make sure that local kids are sustained, Napa Valley Unified School District staff members have been passing out free lunches at pick-up sites that are either drivethrough or grab and go. The world as we knew it, has literally been turned upside down. Other than coming together to stay at least six feet apart at the grocery store, most all of us are lacking human interaction. For me this has been difficult, but there are also some important lessons I have learned, and tools for coping with social distancing: • Be Compassionate - There is a lot of loss around us, as I mentioned earlier, both due to illness and financially. Have compassion for others, you may not realize what they are actually experiencing. • Support Local - Our local businesses need our support more than ever! If you have a choice, and dollars to spend, spend your money here in Napa County. • Have Gratitude - I will never again take for granted hugs and handshakes (likely things of the past for at least the short term) and the time I spend with those that I love. Not being able to see my parents and my sister, other than from the distance when we drop things off for each other on the porch, is not easy. Celebrating holidays and birthdays over the phone or computer, rather than in person, is something for my family (and likely yours) that is new. • Be Resourceful - I have noticed increased creativity in the social media posts of my online friends. Craving

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13 YEARS AT THE HELM OF NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY HOUSING By Sasha Paulsen

As Kathleen Reynolds prepares to retire after 13 years at the helm of Napa Valley Community Housing (NVCH), she reflected back on the twists and turns and cross-country journeys that brought her to the experience—and she looked ahead to her next steps. NVCH, a non-profit organization, is the primary manager of affordable housing in Napa County. They build and maintain units throughout the valley. Additionally, they provide resident services, including teaching life and leadership skills that will help people move on. “I’ve loved the experience, every day of it,” said Reynolds, who as president and CEO, oversees a staff of 42. “The staff is great and they do really good work.” The job, however, was something she had never imagined she would be doing. Growing up, Reynolds’s goal was to be a writer. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she was 9 when her family moved from Amityville, New York to San Francisco, where her father, a plasterer, had work. When an injury forced an early end to this career, he studied electronics at night school and found another job in Manteca, in California’s Central Valley. “I was 13 when we moved,” she said. “It was quite a culture shock. I remember driving with my dad and we saw a sagebrush roll across the road. I thought, ‘Where are we?’” She read a book that advised wouldbe writers to study drama and she enjoyed theater classes, “but my dad was worried I might become an actress.” At Sacramento State University, she majored in communications. “I figured that was close to writing but I wouldn’t have to do as many research papers as an English major.” After graduation she was working at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers’ distribution center in Santa Rosa when she met businessman Bill Dreessen. Two years later they married and moved to Pleasant Hill, which led them to Napa Valley. “We bought a condo at Silverado and we would go there to play golf,” she said. They kept the condo when Bill was transferred back east. They lived in Philadelphia and New York, but they visited Napa when they could. Meanwhile, Kathleen landed a New York literary agent and published several romance novels. “I couldn’t believe my luck,” she said. Napa Valley kept drawing them back, however. “One day we finally decided, ‘Let’s just move there.” They never regretted their decision, and as they settled into a home in North Napa, her writing career grew. In addition to novels, she wrote for local publications including Napa Valley Marketplace, the Napa Valley Register and North Bay Biz, and they became involved in the Napa community. Then in 2000, Bill fell ill, and Kathleen had to become the family breadwinner, something hard to accomplish as a freelance writer. This is when a friend told her that Napa Valley Community Housing (NVCH) was looking for a new Executive Director. “I’d written articles about affordable housing in the North Bay Biz and knew NVCH was a really good organization,” she said. “I’d also learned about them when I took part in Leadership Napa Valley. I wasn’t sure what I had to offer to them but I thought it was worth trying.” The interview process took two months. She recalled the day she got a call from the executive recruiter. “We were talking about different things and suddenly he said, ‘You do know you got the job, don’t you?’”

and Napa Valley Family Homes. When she started, the 2008 budget was just over $1.2 million and she was in charge of finding the funds. “Our goal is to find, build and maintain attractive, safe and decent places for people to live — and to avoid the stigma of “affordable housing,” Reynolds said. “The point is not to keep people in our housing but to help them move on. It is really hard to break out of the cycle of poverty.” To add to Kathleen Reynolds the challenge, she started the job in October 2007. “When the recession of 2008 hit, money for new construction dried up completely,” she said. After her husband passed away in 2009, Reynolds poured her efforts into running the vital service during a challenging economic time—with affordable housing becoming increasingly rare. She found herself learning “the ins and outs of building affordable housing.” She also had to study for and take exams to get a real estate broker’s license, while overseeing two new construction sites and one major rehab of properties. NVCH now manages property valued at more than $142 million. The 2019-20 budget is $2.1 million. Her hard work paid off. In 2010 NVCH was named the Outstanding Nonprofit of the Year by Napa Chamber of Commerce and Mechanics Bank. It also received the 2014 Non-Profit of Excellence distinction by the Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL). Reynolds herself was awarded the Napa Chamber of Commerce Ambassador of the Year in 2016 and Excellence in Leadership by CVNL in 2018. She is the immediate past chairwoman of the statewide California Coalition for Rural Housing and received a National Distinguished Leadership Award from the Community Leadership Foundation. Acquiring this background in construction had another unexpected consequence. In 2012, she met contractor and construction superintendent Bruce Reynolds, and they began dating. They married in 2015. Another challenge for her organization arrived with the wildfires of 2017, which destroyed thousands of homes. “When the fires began we were working on a 140-unit rehab and, because the renovations were extensive, we had to relocate all residents,” Reynolds said. “This further decreased the inventory of available housing.” The losses from the fires continue to be a problem today. “We have a less than one percent vacancy,” she said. “We had to close waiting lists.”

And her learning curve began.

Reynolds had planned to retire in June, but when the Coronavirus hit, she offered to stay on until her replacement could be hired, a process complicated by the shelter-at-home orders. Like many non-profits, they had to continue their work, while maintaining safety for their clients as well as themselves. “We are a unique group,” Reynolds said, “but the staff is great and they do a lot of good. It is satisfying to see someone who works really hard and deserves a break, get a break. It changes lives forever for them and their family.”

Napa Valley Community Housing was created by a merger between two local housing non-profits: Housing Association for Napa Development

What are her plans, when she is able to retire? “I’m going back to my first love, writing,” Reynolds said. “It is what I always wanted to do.” MAY 2020

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Over the past year The Meadows of Napa Valley has been coordinating the Music For Memory project, a program sparked by Napa Noon Rotary with the participation of Teens Connect.

progress,” Novotny explained, “When residents hear music from their past, it literally lights up this part of their brain transporting them to a place of wonderful memories, joy and peace.”

“Napa Rotary approached us for help with their Music For Memory project and we jumped at the chance,” said Jeni Olsen, Founder and Executive Director of Teens Connect, “Our teens actively engage in community volunteer opportunities whenever possible, and we loved the cross-generational idea of this initiative.”

The program came to life when Napa Noon Rotary generously offered a grant to fund the project, which allowed The Meadows to purchase Amazon tablets, headphones, mini speakers and accessories for the individual use of their residents.

According to Melissa Novotny, Memory Support Supervisor at The Meadows of Napa Valley (a Life Plan Residential Community), the goal of Music For Memory is to bring music to the cognitively challenged population in the Memory Center.

“These portable devices allow our residents accessibility to their favorite songs while in their rooms, on the patio or virtually anywhere in the Memory Center. Listening to their own music offers them comfort and respite during times of sadness, agitation, loneliness, boredom or pain,” Novotny added.

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has goals similar to Teens Connect. With a desire to volunteer, Graffigna joined Music For Memory at the start. She stated that her role is to figure out what type of music a resident will like, and that they can eventually listen to on their own, “I believe that this will allow them to somehow remember some things of their past, or just have fun listening to music in general.” Madison Shipp, also a senior at Napa High School became involved with Teens Connect after a friend told her about a life-changing trip to the Dominican Republic, together they traveled to Guatemala the following year. “I very recently became involved in the Music For Memory project,” said Shipp, “I create playlists for the residents. I play songs for them that they may have liked and they either say yes or no.” Shipp usually interacts with one to two residents, volunteering one to two hours per visit.

needs of local youth to make an enduring impact on their wellbeing by creating programming both inside and outside of local Napa Valley schools. Since founding the organization Olsen has connected teens at local schools by helping them establish empowerment clubs on their school campuses, and created a county-wide Teen Council which includes students from seven area high schools. The Teens Connect Teen Council provides peer-to-peer support and referral, promotes volunteerism and civic engagement and offers insight, observation and the unique teen perspective to program development. Members of Teens Connect have spoken to the School Board about critical issues such as teen mental health, volunteered at numerous local events and traveled internationally with Olsen in service to disadvantaged people in destinations such as the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. In this new program at The Meadows, Teens Connect student volunteers create personal playlists for residents as part of the Music For Memory project. The students come from various schools in the Napa community. “They come weekly on their own time to the Memory Center and work with our residents, building playlists of their favorite songs, artists and genres,” said Novotny. Gianna Graffigna, a senior at Napa High School became involved in Teens Connect, as she is serving as co-president of the Enough Club at her school, which she explained

Samira Flores, a junior at Vintage High School, typically volunteers with her friend Kalaya Jones, a junior at Napa High School and a current member of the Teen Council. “We sit with the residents and try to put on their favorite music using the tablets and Amazon Music,” Flores explained, “We try our best to sing along and make sure the residents are having a great time. For example, one time Kalaya and I looked up the lyrics and sang with the residents, there was a smile on everyone’s face that day.” Jones further described that each playlist is labeled with the resident’s name and saved on each tablet so that the residents can listen to any one of their favorite songs whenever they would like. “At the beginning we receive a list of the resident’s favorite songs from one of their family members,” Jones said, “From there we download the songs in hopes to help the residents remember past experiences and just to have a good laugh.” Clearly, the teens are learning that there are benefits of this program, which are reciprocal. It is not all about doing for the residents, the teens are learning important life lessons and perhaps even a bit of history about prior generations in the process. Hannah Newman, another Napa High School senior, joined Teens Connect and traveled with the group to Guatemala last year. She has also volunteered for Music For Memory from the beginning. “The biggest thing I have learned from participating in Music and Memory is being able to interact and listen to the resident’s life stories,” said Newman who added that she has been surprised at how amazing the lives of the residents have been and how excited they are to talk to the teens and listen to their favorite songs.

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Blaine Oliver, also a senior at Napa High School reports, “I have learned more about dementia and how it affects people.” Shipp has learned that sometimes giving is the best gift to yourself, “Enjoy the little things in life. A simple song can brighten someone’s day in seconds and giving someone a smile is the most heartwarming gift I can ever receive.” She went on to say that she feels refreshed and happy after spending time with the residents, “They are very respectful, witty, funny, and I enjoy hearing about their lives.” “After spending time with the residents I feel like music is such a great thing that allows us to connect with one another,” Oliver added. “I have learned how impactful music is on a person,” said Jones, “Each of the residents light up when they hear one of their favorite songs. You can just instantly see the joy and excitement in their eyes. It is beautiful.” Newman said, “After I spend time with the residents I feel a mix of emotions, I mostly feel happy that I am able to help put together some music for them to listen to, but my favorite thing I get to walk away with is that I get to listen to them talk about their life and how proud they are to have accomplished what they have done.” “I love being with the residents! They are all so nice and are truly interested in our lives and I am intrigued by their lives,” Graffigna emphasized, “I would be perfectly happy just talking to them because they have so much to share about our world. I love seeing them smile when they hear the music and some will sing along and dance.” “It always makes my week to see the smiles on their faces while singing to their favorite songs. Knowing that something as simple as playing music can mean a lot to someone really makes you feel good,” Flores said, “After I leave the residents, Kalaya and I always spend the whole car ride home talking about all the residents and how adorable they really are.” “What I didn’t expect was that our teens would be visiting their new friends at The Meadows on a regular basis once the playlists were complete, to talk and sing with them. Beautiful relationships are forming,” said Olsen, “Teens that volunteer gain new perspectives of our community and world, learn empathy and compassion, improve confidence and self-esteem, and develop unique problem-solving skills.” Novotny has been impressed with the kindness, compassion, patience and dedication that members of Teens Connect 26

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