DERBY - The Griffin Hospital Pet Therapy Team of Nancy Schneider and her greyhound Star, of Monroe, recently received The Planetree Animal Therapy Team Award.
The Planetree Animal Therapy Team Awards are an annual, worldwide competition that searches out and recognizes health care animal therapy teams.
These teams are often comprised of ordinary pets and their handlers who do extraordinary things in healthcare environments, whether helping patients with their physical therapy, lending an ear to a person who is suffering emotionally, or by simply providing the tail-wagging welcome to visitors of a health care facility.
The team was selected for Star’s infinite patience when tending to patients. A great example of this occurred when Star recently paid a visit to a hospice patient’s husband. Immediately upon meeting Star, the man fell to his knees and embraced her.
Star patiently allowed him to soak in her calming presence.
The following day when the patient’s wife passed away, the first words spoken by her husband when he left the hospital room were “thank you for sending me that beautiful dog.”
Like many pet therapy teams, Star and Nancy provided companionship and were instrumental in the recovery process.
About Planetree
Founded in 1978 by Angelica Thieriot, a San Francisco patient who endured a traumatic health care experience, Planetree is an internationally-recognized, not-for-profit organization that partners with health care providers around the globe to advance patient-/resident-centered approaches to care. Planetree has been at the forefront of the effort to personalize, humanize, and demystify the health care system for more than 30 years.
With its model of patient-/resident-centered care being implemented in a diverse range of hospitals, continuing care facilities, outpatient clinics, and consumer health libraries across North America, Canada, Brazil, The Netherlands and Japan, Planetree is demonstrating that patient-centered care is not only an empowering philosophy, but a viable, vital, and cost-effective model of care.
This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.
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