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Quality Eye Care, Quality Eyewear Designer Optical Boutique, Fabulous Unique Frames Comprehensive Eye Care For The Entire Family (Including Pediatric Exams) Highly Personalized Customer Service Warm Friendly Professional Staff Specializing In Contact Lenses Tehama Women’s Health Specialists “Dedicated to Safe & Gentle Childbirth” Including Waterbirth Theodore W. Shea MD Sally Cox, C.N.M./NP Pamela Stuart, C.N.M. New patients always welcome! Red Bluff Vision Center Your Full Service Eye Professionals Aurora Barriga O.D. 715 Jackson St., Suite A, Red Bluff (530) 527-9242 Complete Obstetrical & Gynecological Care 2490 Sister Mary Columba Drive, Red Bluff 530-529-2966 St. Elizabeth Hospice A member of CHW W THOMSON REUTERS hen Tehama County residents and their families are faced with life-limiting illness, St. Elizabeth continues its mission of compassionate care and comfort to help them through the last steps of their life journey. A sister service to Mercy Medical Center Redding Hospice, St. Elizabeth Hospice provides physical, emotional, and spiritual help in the supportive surroundings of the patient’s own home, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. What is hospice? Hospice care focuses on the patient rather than the disease, and highlights quality rather than length of life. It affirms life and does not hasten nor postpone death. St. Elizabeth Hospice nurses help their patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones. Hospice care can be given in the patient’s home, a hospital, nursing home, or private hospice facility, but in the United States most hospice care is given in the home, with a family members serving as the main hands- on caregiver. When should you ask for hospice help? When patients can no longer benefit from curative treatment and life expectancy is estimated to be about six months depending on disease process and other variables, the patient, their family, and the doctor decide together when hospice services should begin. Hospice is sometimes not started soon enough because the doctor, patient, or family member feels it sends a message of no hope. This is not true. There are patients who “graduate” from hospice when their condition improves or the disease goes into remission, or the patient chooses to return to active treatment. Hospice care may be resumed at a later time. St. Elizabeth Hospice Services are here for you and your family whenever you might need us. We are just a phone call away. Call for more information on Hospice or bereavement classes: 530-528-4207 “When you cannot add days to your life, add life to your days.” Donations to St. Elizabeth Hospice through Mercy Foundation North http://redding.mercy.org/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=5100024 help to cover patient expenses. No one is turned away because of an inability to pay. redbluff.mercy.org 28 2011 - Tehama County Medical Guide