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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Sunny and beautiful Delightful with clouds and sun 81° 55° 86° 58° FRIDAY SATURDAY Plenty of sunshine Nice with plenty of sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 92° 63° 88° 59° 89° 58° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 91° 60° 87° 57° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 81° 83° 109° (2015) 59° 55° 42° (1934) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 1.10" 2.15" 1.01" 11.30" 6.47" 7.52" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 85° 83° 108° (2015) 64° 55° 41° (2012) Trace 0.28" 0.55" 6.59" 4.64" 5.66" SUN AND MOON 5:08 a.m. 8:49 p.m. 10:37 a.m. none Last New John Day 79/46 Ontario 88/56 Bend 78/45 July 8 July 16 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Hi 65 78 78 67 80 75 77 80 87 79 81 78 75 87 61 64 88 89 81 77 81 77 82 76 74 86 88 Lo 52 41 45 52 38 43 48 49 57 46 42 47 43 55 49 52 56 54 55 54 41 52 57 41 52 61 55 W pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s s s pc pc s s s pc s pc s s pc s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 67 81 84 66 82 80 82 85 91 84 85 82 80 93 63 65 87 91 86 82 87 82 85 81 80 89 91 Lo 54 46 51 53 43 47 51 54 60 54 47 52 49 58 51 54 56 56 58 58 49 55 61 46 57 64 58 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc s pc s pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc s pc pc s pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 93 91 88 64 73 69 74 87 84 62 78 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 73 83 66 54 58 51 58 72 68 48 71 W pc sh s r t s t pc pc sh r Thu. Hi 93 90 87 68 72 71 69 84 83 62 81 Lo 73 82 65 56 59 58 57 68 68 48 73 W t t s c t c pc s pc pc pc WINDS Medford 87/55 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 81/42 REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Low clouds giving way to sunshine today. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny and pleasant today. Mainly clear tonight. Cascades: Mostly sunny today; pleasant. Mainly clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow; pleasant. Northern California: Low clouds followed by sunshine at the coast today; plenty of sunshine elsewhere. July 23 Today Thursday WSW 7-14 W 8-16 SW 4-8 NW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Western Washington: Low clouds breaking for some sun today. June 30 Caldwell 85/51 Burns 80/38 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 78/50 Eugene 77/48 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 94° 60° Spokane Wenatchee 82/57 85/60 Tacoma Moses 74/50 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 88/55 77/52 64/53 73/49 88/55 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 70/52 86/61 Lewiston 89/55 Astoria 85/58 65/52 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 77/54 Pendleton 75/43 The Dalles 87/57 81/55 82/58 La Grande Salem 78/47 77/52 Corvallis 78/50 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 93° 62° Seattle 74/55 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 97° 66° Today SUNDAY Mostly sunny and pleasant Wednesday, June 28, 2017 2 5 7 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 95 87 77 82 79 89 85 78 87 81 82 82 92 86 81 101 74 80 87 88 82 84 88 107 89 80 Lo 64 69 65 63 55 71 55 62 71 61 70 65 76 54 64 76 53 54 73 74 68 73 70 80 70 62 W s s s s t pc s s t s t s pc t s s c r pc t s t t s pc pc Thur. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com HERMISTON PENDLETON Volunteers add extra hands at Good Shepherd Man attempts suicide at city hall By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian When patients arrive at Good Shepherd Medical Center, they often find a helping hand extended by the hospital’s volunteers. Whether it’s helping someone sign up for Medi- care or bringing a blanket to a chemotherapy patient, more than 80 members of the community give back each year at Good Shepherd through the CareVan, hospital auxiliary and junior volunteer programs. Kathie Mallory volunteers for a five-hour shift in the day surgery suite each week. She keeps track of patients and provides updates to families on where their loved one is in the process. Until her retire- ment in 2007 she was the vice president of nursing for the hospital, so she knows exactly how valuable volunteers can be. They work the reception desk for various departments, help out with community education classes, conduct tours of the hospital, provide advice on Medicare enroll- ment, run the gift shop, provide conversation and comfort items to chemo- therapy patients, help with blood drives, work in the day surgery suite, transport patients to medical appoint- ments and hold fundraisers for medical equipment and scholarships. “Those are things we do that the hospital would other- wise have to hire someone to do,” she said. She said when she came back as a volunteer, the nurses joked with her that now they get to tell her what to do. She doesn’t mind; she just enjoys the opportunity to help the hospital and the patients. “I think it’s really important for people, when they retire, to get an interest in volunteering,” she said. “It’s a satisfying thing to do. You fill a need and it helps you not get isolated at home.” Although the vast majority of hospital volunteers are retired women, Mallory said she’s glad the volunteer program for high school students was recently restarted, giving those inter- Hospital expanding, focused on customer service Staff photo by Jade McDowell Kelly Sanders, left, hands out certificates to volunteers Monday at Good Shepherd Health Care System’s annual volunteer appreciation luncheon. “We would be volunteering in a lot more departments if we had more volunteers who were good with computers.” Cindy Schaan, hospital’s director of volunteer services ested in a medical career a taste of how a hospital runs. Cindy Schaan, the hospi- tal’s director of volunteer services, said there are 68 members of the Good Shepherd Medical Center Auxiliary, which provides volunteers and fundraising efforts for the hospital. Another 10 to 12 volunteers go pick up patients and bring them to appointments through the CareVan program. Schaan said they are always looking for more volunteers. “We would be volunteering in a lot more departments if we had more volunteers who were good with computers,” she said. The money raised by the auxiliary through gift shop sales and fundraisers goes to fulfilling the “wish list” that department managers put together, detailing equipment they wished they could buy but didn’t make the cut in the hospital’s yearly budget. It also goes to scholarships to locals pursuing degrees in the medical field. The auxiliary is about 55 years old, and Schaan said some volunteers have been a member for close to 40 years. She said these days there’s a lot more training required, which makes it more difficult to get people to volunteer. Kathy Carper said she doesn’t know exactly how long she’s been volunteering at the hospital, but it has been multiple decades since she and her husband sold their drug store and she decided to join the auxiliary. She has cut back her hours significantly due to health issues, but said she especially enjoyed her years as a buyer for the gift shop. “It’s a wonderful feeling, when you see people come through the doors that are so sick or so injured and you know your small part could help buy equipment that could help save their life,” she said. Carper said one of the needs at the hospital are “never-ending,” as are the changes to the facility. “As Hermiston grows, so must the hospital,” she said. Sally Peatow donates her time helping people sign up for Medicare. She said seniors these days have often done their own research and are coming in for a second opinion, but it’s such a complex topic that it is always a good idea to have someone with training look over the application. One man, for example, discovered when he came in that the plan he had chosen would only pay for medications from a CVS pharmacy, even though there aren’t any in Hermiston. Construction of Good Shepherd Health Care System’s expansion is on schedule to be completed in October or November. Vice president of human resources Kelly Sanders told volunteers gathered at the hospital’s annual volunteer appreciation luncheon that along with the building expansion Good Shepherd is looking to recruit 22 new physicians in addition to several recent hires. Good Shepherd has also expanded its reach by merging with Advanced Orthopedics and Sports Medi- cine, and assumes ownership of Gifford Medical next week. It has added a virtual clinic that provides a low-cost call or video conferencing session with a physician, and has added new programs like Achieve, Conquer, Thrive that provides guidance on healthy weight management at $4 per half hour session. It is also in the process of a multi-million dollar upgrade to its record-keeping program that will make it much easier for the hospital to share records between facilities when a patient gets transferred. Sanders said the hospital has also focused on customer service by hiring a customer experience representative to follow up with patients about their experience. They have been providing “service recovery toolkit” gift cards when the hospital “recognizes we could have given better service.” The hospital’s Service Excellence Initiative has been providing ways for employees to teach other employees about improving customer service, and Sanders said Good Shepherd has so far seen a three percent increase in patient satisfaction scores. Good Shepherd also won a 2017 Patient Safety Excellence award from Healthgrades for prevention of serious, avoidable complications during hospital stays. “When I signed up for Medicare, I thought, ‘This is so much more confusing than it needs to be,’ so that’s when I said, ‘OK this is what I’m going to do,’” she said. Peatow has been volun- teering for about five years, and said she enjoys being able to help people make the most of the benefits available to them. She and other volun- teers also said that a perk of joining the auxiliary is the friendships they make with the other volunteers. On Monday many of them gathered together for Good Shepherd’s annual volunteer appreciation luncheon. Volun- teers were treated to lunch from the hospital’s nutrition department, a certificate detailing the number of hours they had worked and gift card good at Greater Hermiston Area Chamber of Commerce businesses. Kelly Sanders, vice president of human resources for Good Shepherd, provided an update on the hospital and thanked all of the volunteers for the many ways they had helped over the year. “It’s just amazing the different things people in the community do to help out the hospital,” he said. For more information about volunteering for Good Shepherd Health Care System call Cindy Schaan at 541-667- 3690. ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4536. East Oregonian A Pendleton man is receiving treatment after a suicide attempt at the Pendleton City Hall complex Tuesday morning. Pendleton Police Lt. Tony Nelson said police received a call at 8:36 a.m. from city employees. When authorities arrived at the scene, they found a 21-year-old man who had attempted to hang himself with a rope in an area between city hall and the Vert Audito- rium. Nelson said the man was transported to St. Anthony Hospital and then Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Rich- land, Washington. Nelson said police checked on his status Tuesday afternoon and got word back from hospital staff that he was alive, but no further information was available. Editor’s note: The East Oregonian rarely reports on suicide attempts, but makes an exception when it occurs in a visible public place. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accu- rate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
