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HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1512c080.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="520" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="591c0fa0.jpg" border=0 width="704" height="506" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="23d22730.jpg" border=0 width="290" height="371" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In the Press Democrat newspaper, 7/26/2006</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2acfa2c0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Creating Wellness extends to Marin General Hospital through Etta Allen and Deanne.</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="6bbaeaf0.jpg" border=0 width="686" height="943" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Talk about Fido Friendly</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="59753200.jpg" border=0 width="595" height="800" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7016800000000.png" HEIGHT="24" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="59946200.jpg" border=0 width="582" height="800" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The following is from The Press Democrat Newspaper, 12/24/06 Santa Rosa, Ca.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">COMMUNITY CONNECTION</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Program sends volunteer teams of humans and dogs to cheer up hospital patients</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">By RAYNE WOLFE</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">THE PRESS DEMOCRAT</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       Roz Morris, the volunteering dynamo behind the Creating Wellness canine social therapy program at Sutter Hospital, is not one to hide her light under a bushel.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A NAME="more"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>The tall, animated former Brooklynite, who refers to all with honey-baby-sweeties galore, is also a cornball joke teller, a hugger and a kisser - but most of all, she is a believer in the power of unconditional love, especially the love that flows between trained dogs and hospital patients.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      "I love everybody. I want to make everybody happy. With the Creating Wellness program, we are making a difference - through love," she said in her mile-a-minute staccato delivery.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       Morris is the founder of Creating Wellness and the current president of the Sutter Hospital Auxiliary, where she leads the volunteer staff at the gift shop.     Since her husband's retirement from the CHP, she also volunteers with the Santa Rosa Police Department in crime prevention and education programs. On Fridays, she can be found volunteering for the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department at the Windsor Police Department.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       At 63, she has the stamina to do it all, even while expanding the Creating Wellness program to include several senior residential homes and making plans to introduce the program at Healdsburg District Hospital.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       It all started about 16 years ago with her dog, Sabrina.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       At that time, Morris was helping out at the Healdsburg Hospital gift shop. She asked her supervisor if Sabrina, her friendly cocker spaniel, might visit a patient or two. Maybe it could do them some good, she suggested. "It took three weeks to get permission to try it. My little Sabrina was just incredible. She was the one who started it all, really," Morris said.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">        Suki Gill, a hospital staffer who was at Healdsburg Hospital when Morris and Sabrina launched Creating Wellness, welcomed the duo when she took a new job at Sutter Medical Center.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       "We love the program because it promotes healthy interaction while focusing on patient safety and infection control. Roz runs a very strict and rigorous training program. Not just any dog can walk in here and do this work," said Gill, volunteer coordinator at Sutter.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">        The program is free to those who request it. Most breeds are welcome to try out for the program.  Volunteer human and canine teams are screened and trained and first work as interns, shadowing Morris and her current dog, Ally, as they visit patients. Before they hit the halls, each dog is bathed and groomed and has its paws washed with antiseptic wipes - even between their toe pads.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         Big dogs work with their feet on the floor, often placing their chins on patients' laps or beds. Small dogs may lie upon patients beds, but only on a special mat laid down between the dog and the blanket. Volunteers look for brightly colored magnetic tags to mark rooms of patients who have requested a Creating Wellness visit.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">        "Some patients are slumped over and very ill, but they still want to see a dog. I have gently moved their hand to pet the dog. Patients who haven't been able to talk to the nurses will talk to the dog. You really do see miracles," Morris said. "Sometimes they ask, 'Can Ally sleep here tonight?' It'll break your heart, darling. The doctors call our dogs medicine balls because they help facilitate healing," Morris said.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">        The program operates 365 days a year and utilizes 68 teams of volunteers. With more volunteers, the program could further expand, Morris said. The only caution Morris offers on the work is not about emotional stresses; rather she warns that dogs will quickly view visiting patients as their jobs.  Morris says Creating Wellness animals can sulk if they have to stay home.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         "Giving a dog a job elongates its life. It also gives the dog and owner a wonderful way to interact in service. Everyone gets an incredible experience out of it," she said.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">         To learn more about Creating Wellness, visit <A HREF="http://www.creating-wellness.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.creating-wellness.net">www.creating-wellness.net</A>. That site includes photographs of many of the current therapy teams.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="3b8298a0.jpg" border=0 width="553" height="394" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sutter Hospital patient Nancy Walker feeds a trear to Ally, who visits patients at health care </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">facilities with Roz of Creating Wellness, a canine social therapy program. Roz started the program </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">about 16 years ago in Healdsburg.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700b400000000.png" HEIGHT="12" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="414503c0.jpg" border=0 width="336" height="828" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>