{"id":25232,"date":"2017-04-26T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toh.wpengine.com\/en\/?p=25232"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:41:05","slug":"good-wishes-program-brightens-patients-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/good-wishes-program-brightens-patients-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Wishes Program brightens patients\u2019 days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Priscilla Kelly received so many good wishes \u2013 17, including many from Australia \u2013 that a volunteer made a special trip to deliver them all.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The hospital can be a lonely place. Priscilla Kelly, mother of four and cancer patient at The Ottawa Hospital, knows how hard it can be.<\/p>\n

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Most of her family and friends are unable to visit because they live in Cornwall, Ont. or Australia, but they wanted to do something special during her most recent stay in hospital. So, they sent her 17 messages through the new Good Wishes Program.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you\u2019re going through tough times it\u2019s just nice to have that positive outlook or positive comments,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cIt helps you want to keep fighting. To me, it just helps me stay positive instead of being negative.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Good Wishes Program was created in November by the Communications Department and is managed by the Call Centre. The program gives family members or friends a way to send email messages to patients. All they have to do is fill out a form on the hospital\u2019s website. The form is then emailed to the Call Centre, where staff members verify patient room numbers, format the messages, and print them. A volunteer then delivers the messages to patients.<\/p>\n

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One of Kelly\u2019s friends in Australia found the Good Wishes page and secretly shared the link in a Facebook post on her wall so everyone could send messages. Kelly received so many during one weekend that a volunteer made a special trip to deliver them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis brings a smile to my face,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cWhen I\u2019m sad, I can just take them out and read them again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robert Carr, a volunteer who has delivered some of the good wishes, knows how a small, kind act can make someone\u2019s day.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf they don\u2019t have relatives that live close by, then I would imagine that those messages would be really important to them,\u201d said Carr.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019d like to send someone a good wish, visit the hospital\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Priscilla Kelly received so many good wishes \u2013 17, including many from Australia \u2013 that a volunteer made a special trip to deliver them all.   The hospital can be a lonely place. Priscilla Kelly, mother of four and cancer patient at The Ottawa Hospital, knows how hard it can be.   Most of her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}