CANCER EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Colon Cancer-Education Program

Dress-in-Blue-Day for Cancer Awareness Month - March 11

The Healthy Survivor Program

The Healthy Survivor is an 8-week program for cancer patients who have completed their initial treatments. Each of the eight classes meets for 2 hours once each week. The three components of the program are physical fitness, nutrition, and emotional coping skills. Classes are taught by Physical Therapists and Reigstered Dietitians from Jennie Edmundson Hospital and Alegent Mercy Hospital, and a Licensed Counselor from Wings of Hope. Each class includes all three components with both education and practice elements.

Dietitian Mary Stuhr, leads the class in a cooking demonstration.

We love to exercise!!

"A Time To Heal" Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Program

A Time To Heal is a 12 week holistic rehabilitation program designed to help women regain their physical, emotional and spiritual health after breast cancer treatment.
Women who participate will receive helpful information about healing, training in coping skills such as relaxation, and opportunities to ask questions and share insights with the facilitators, expert faculty and other survivors.

Stretching, stretching

2008 A Time To Heal Participants

A Time To Heal classes offered in the fall of 2009