Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 7, 1995 TAG: 9511070029
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: SANDRA BROWN KELLY AND LESLIE TAYLOR
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The event is aimed at family members, volunteers and health-care professionals who work with dying persons.
Speakers include Sue Moore of Good Samaritan Hospice Inc., who will discuss the processes and stages of grief; Mary Patsel, of Virginia Tech's Department of Human Nutrition and Foods, who will talk about counseling the terminally ill from a dietitian's viewpoint; Dr. William Fintel, a cancer specialist with Lewis-Gale Clinic, who will look at the interaction of spiritual and religious beliefs with the practice of medicine; and B.P. Simpson Jr., of Oakey Funeral Service, who will explain some of the processes involved in preparing a body for burial and alternatives to traditional burial.
The workshop opens at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 5:30 p.m. The registration fee is $75 and includes lunch. Registration should be made by Nov. 13 for lunch availability. For information, call Mary Patsel at 231-8769, and for registration, call Mary Hill at 231-5183.
The College of Health Sciences in Roanoke is allowing continuing-education credit for the workshop. Students should check with conference organizers in Tech's Division of Continuing Education to learn about the requirements.
CHIP fund drive
When Roanoke's Child Health Investment Partnership - CHIP - kicked off its fund drive in August, an anonymous donor pledged to match donations dollar for dollar, up to $12,500.
But the challenge carried conditions. The donations had to be $50 or more and come from people who had never given to the agency before.
About 130 new donors met the challenge, giving slightly more than $12,500. The anonymous donor honored his pledge with a $12,500 gift. The challenge raised more than $26,000.
CHIP has set a goal of raising $100,000. To date, it has raised $47,000.
The agency also has kicked off a corporate campaign. This month, it received $1,500 from Central Fidelity National Bank. CHIP's goal is to raise $86,000 from Roanoke Valley businesses this year.
CHIP was founded in 1988 as a private-public coalition that provides comprehensive health care for Roanoke Valley children living at or below the poverty level. The program has served as a model for child-health programs in 11 other Virginia communities.
The program served 1,500 children, from birth to age 6 last year in Roanoke, Salem and Roanoke, Botetourt and Craig counties. An estimated 5,000 children in those localities have been identified as needing CHIP's services.
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Washing your hands over and over when they aren't even dirty. Straightening and tidying things that don't need it. Worrying excessively, or even an inability to throw something away when it is no longer useful.
Any of these behaviors can be a sign of an obsessive compulsive disorder, which will be the topic of a public forum Nov. 14 at Lewis-Gale Foundation Auditorium at Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem. Among the speakers will be Bill Ford, a clinical social worker in a Milwaukee hospital who has suffered from obsessive compulsive disorders.
About 5 million people in the country suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, a behavior that appears to have no rational base and interferes with a normal life, say forum speakers, psychologist Samuel Rogers Jr. and Dr. David Hartman, psychiatrist, of Lewis-Gale Clinic.
Solvay Pharmaceuticals and the Upjohn Co., which market Luvox or fluvoxamine, a drug used to treat the illness, are paying for Ford's appearance. Other drugs used are Proxac (fluoxetine) and Anafranil (clomipramine).
The discussion begins at 7 p.m. and should be over by 8:30. To register or get more information, call the foundation at 774-4022.
A similar program will be offered for health care professionals on Nov. 15 at 12:30 p.m. The session carries continuing medical education credit.
by CNB