Sheryl Punia, left, and Lisa Smukler are hoping to get the word out about Community Hospice of Greenwood House.
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Greenwood program
HOW TO LIVE a Longer, More Vibrant Life, an evening with Mehmet Oz, MD, is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center, 151 Moore St. in Princeton. The program will include a question-and-answer period, a book-signing session, and a short video on Community Hospice of Greenwood House.
Tickets start at $50. For registration information, call Greenwood House at 609-883-5391. For information about sponsorship opportunities, call Jenn Shetsen at 908-322-1100. For more information on the Community Hospice, go to www.greenwoodhouse.org.
October 7, 2008
In a drive to raise both funds and awareness about its many services for the dying, Community Hospice of Greenwood House is planning to showcase an expert in the art of living.
On Sunday, Oct. 26, the nonsectarian, nonprofit community organization will present How to Live a Longer, More Vibrant Life, an evening with noted author/TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Author of five bestselling books, including the award-winning Healing from the Heart and You: Staying Young — The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty, Oz is vice chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University. He often appears as the health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
“This is our first fund-raiser for hospice,” said Richard Goldstein, Greenwood House executive director. “We’re hoping to raise $100,000,” he said.
“We’re going to use the additional dollars to provide extra services that will help comfort individuals who are terminally ill,” he said, “bringing in aroma therapists and music therapists and physical therapists who can do therapeutic touch.”
Community Hospice of Greenwood House has brought its services to some 95 individuals since it was launched in August of last year, according to Goldstein. It offers compassionate care, comfort, support, and expertise in pain and symptom management, as well as help in meeting the challenges of end-of-life issues, he said. Currently, 16 people are receiving the hospice’s palliative care.
Dr. Mehmet Oz will be the featured speaker at the Oct. 26 Greenwood House fund-raiser.
Even as the Greenwood House hospice offers care on a nonsectarian basis, Goldstein said, it provides special support to Jewish patients, including the guidance of Rabbi Isaac Leizerowski, who serves as hospice chaplain.
“In terms of our Jewish patients, we’re well positioned to provide extra care and extra support that a regular hospice couldn’t provide,” he said.
Sheryl Punia of Princeton, a Greenwood House board member and cochair of the evening, is anticipating a successful event.
“Dr. Oz certainly fits with the theme of living a quality life,” which is what hospice strives to ensure that its clients have, said Punia.
“We’re hoping to get the word out to the community about Greenwood House hospice,” said Pinia. “It’s a fabulous program, and a lot of people who could use the service don’t know it exists.”
Punia’s cochair, Lisa Smukler of Princeton, said, “We really want people in the community to know that this is available and it is nonsectarian,” said Smukler, a vice president of the Greenwood House board.
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