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Tuomey dogs are patients’ best pals
By GINA VASSELLI - The (Sumter) Item
SUMTER — claims made and term insurance policies Tuomey Regional Medical Center has gone to the dogs.
Gurley, an American water spaniel; Dutches, a golden retriever; and Boomer, a German shepherd, joined Tuomey recently as part of the new pet therapy program.
The dogs visit long-term patients at the hospital, but Tuomey spokeswoman Judy Ferrell said the hospital workers look forward to visits from the dogs, too.
“The staff loves this as much as the patients do,” Ferrell said. The dogs recently reducing term insurance personal were brought up to the Acute Rehabilitation Unit and the hospital staff gathered in the hallway atv helicopter term to greet long term care consultants the canine almost term article ross trio before the dogs went to the patients’ rooms.
But these dogs aren’t your average pooches. Gurley math term ln is an medical term compulsive liar award-winning show dog, and all three had to train to become therapy dogs.
Lois McCracken, Gurley’s owner and founder of the program at Tuomey, said the pet therapy dogs have to exhibit basic medical term for inic obedience skills, plus “they have to be able to walk around a dish and not touch the food.”
McCracken said that ability is as much for the dogs’ term limits pros and cons safety as the patients. She said the dogs have to be able to ignore dropped food or pills so that they don’t eat tbi long term complications medicine that may hurt them.
The dogs are groomed and their nails are clipped right long term cd before they visit the hospital so they don’t accidentally scratch a patient.
But there are other criteria for pet therapy dogs.
“Temperament is a big thing,” McCracken said. “The dog must accept the touch of strangers.”
Gurley had no problem with the patients, even giving patient Penny Conner a kiss.
“How about you heal me right quick?” Conner asked the dog. “I don’t mind a little kiss.”
Conner said that having the dogs come in brightens her bankers life long term care stay in Tuomey.
“You’re laying up here and you’re term life insurance lonely sometimes, and you don’t know what’s going to happen,” she said. “This makes you just forget everything for a while.”
Dea long term rentals in pigeon forge Wilder, a annuity tax treatment long term care former nursing-home employee who is now a patient at Tuomey, said she has seen the dogs brighten up the most sullen of patients.
“We had residents who didn’t respond to anything that would respond to the puppy,” Wilder said.
Wilder said she enjoyed the effects of the doggy treatment herself.
“It helps. It does, it long term care insurance really does,” she said.
McCracken, term surf the web along with Mark Bordeaux, Boomer’s owner, and Diane Farrar-Sanderson, a therapy dog coach and Dutches’ owner, started off visiting nursing homes. But soon they were able to get the program at Tuomey started.
McCracken said the dogs have made about 40 long term effects ultrasound teeth visits to the hospital long term effects of vasectomy in the past two weeks.
“It has taken off,” she long term acute care hospitals said.
Bordeaux, pastor of Westside Baptist Church, said Boomer was certified as a therapy dog earlier this year but what is legal term for aoa has been one for much longer than that.
“He’s quite a therapy term versus whole life insurance dog for me,” Bordeaux said.
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