WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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41
45
52
38
43
48
49
57
46
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56
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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
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46
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53
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54
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58
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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
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Thu.
Hi
93
90
87
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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
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National Summary: Showers will affect northern New England, while downpours drench
parts of the Gulf Coast today. Severe storms will push across parts of the North Central
states. Storms will dot areas of the northern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 116° in El Centro, Calif.
Low 28° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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
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92
86
81
101
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107
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77
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Hi
Louisville
87
Memphis
90
Miami
90
Milwaukee
79
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
89
New Orleans
83
New York City
80
Oklahoma City
92
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
81
Phoenix
109
Portland, ME
74
Providence
79
Raleigh
84
Rapid City
81
Reno
91
Sacramento
89
St. Louis
90
Salt Lake City
92
San Diego
71
San Francisco
68
Seattle
74
Tucson
106
Washington, DC 83
Wichita
94
Lo
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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.
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