FY23 St. Joseph Cancer Impact Report

Exceptional Care Close To Home

Your impact on Cancer Care at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation

You have our thanks Thank you for your generosity and giving to the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Center. We have many patients that need assistance and your donations help them during a very challenging time. The Cancer Center is dedicated to helping all patients in our community get equitable access to excellent cancer care, and your donations make this possible. Because of you, we have new state-of-the-art technology and a beautiful cancer center. You enable us to offer goods and services to patients who cannot afford them. Often times it is difficult to see how your generosity can ripple out and affect the lives of many patients. I see it every day.

With deepest gratitude, Barbara E. Nicholson-Sambuceto, DPT Director Cancer Service Line, PeaceHealth Northwest Network

With the help of generous donors, PeaceHealth St. Joseph is able to meet each patient’s many needs through their cancer journey, including physical, emotional, financial and spiritual. Charitable support of our Cancer Center changes lives and brings strength and comfort to cancer patients when they need it most.

Thank you for helping to make our lifesaving and life-affirming care possible.

New Vein Probe ensures patient comfort Thanks to your support, the infusion team at the Cancer Center is very excited to have a new Echonous Vein Probe available to use with patients. Often times with our very ill patients it is difficult for nurses to locate veins needed for peripheral intraveous (IV) placement and subsequent treatment. The new Vein Probe gives nurses the ability to locate a vein with ultrasound guidance for IV placement, taking away discomfort that would come from multiple sticks and re-insertions.

Our nurses will practice with the tool on a model arm that contains actual fluid. When trained using this simulation, they will begin to utilize this innovative tool for real-time visualizations with patients.

Cancer Program Highlights The Northwest Network Cancer Service Line has had a very successful year. We hired three new experienced radiation oncologists, successfully replaced a Linear Accelerator, and hired a medical oncology nurse practitioner. Support groups that were paused during Covid were restarted, and a new survivorship class was added. We are currently implementing same day labs at the infusion center and telehealth genetic counseling services.

Recent Fund Distributions made possible by your gifts 

$230,942 for patient experience improvements

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$19,365 for new infusion recliners

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$29,261 for new waiting room furniture

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$10,874 for vein probe

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$2,013 for patient transportation $2,376 for cancer research assistance

The Power of Your Giving 5020

unique patients served in FY22

15% increase

in number of patients served when compared to last year

$294,831

distributed to support outstanding local cancer care in FY21 & FY22 Your heartfelt dedication to the health of your community is evident with every gift you make.

Compassionate Help in Time of Need Evelyn recently came to the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Center for treatment of colon cancer. The 60-year-old had held a job for many years at a local warehouse distribution company, but soon became too unwell to work due to symptoms from her cancer and treatment. Within a couple of months, Evelyn had used all of her savings and had no income. Unfortunately, this led to her moving out of her apartment and living in her car.

Our cancer center social worker guided Evelyn to apply for benefits under the Washington State Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to help her get some income coming in. Your gifts enabled us to provide her with gas cards so that she could drive to her appointments.

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation

When she needed a colonoscopy, Evelyn shared that she could not participate because she did not have a place to do the preparation. Your generosity enabled us to get her a hotel room for one night so she could participate in the much-needed test. She called from the hotel to say how nice the room was and how much she appreciated the kindness.

Our social worker placed Evelyn on the waiting list for one of the tiny home villages and asked her to visit and introduce herself. She has been accepted to the Tiny Home Village and will be moving in soon.

Your support makes a huge difference for patients like Evelyn.

Thank you!

To learn more about the power of your giving, contact: Jennifer Fix, CFRE Development Officer jfix@peacehealth.org 360-421-5646

Karen Haggen, FCEP Development Officer khaggen@peacehealth.org 360-319-0141

Britt Kane Associate Development Officer bkane1@peacehealth.org 360-303-1641