Letter: Virginia Thurston Healing Garden extremely grateful
Telegram & Gazette
On behalf of the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden’s board, staff, volunteers and clients, I wish to extend my deepest thanks for the support our organization has received since the start of the COVID pandemic. This collective generosity has allowed us to continue to offer our cancer services, which complements cancer patients’ traditional medical care and provides tools to improve quality of life and build resiliency. COVID caused us to move to a virtual platform for our support groups and other therapeutic programming. Since March 2020, we have experienced a 47% increase in utilization, and an increase in the number of households in our care. Virtual programming has made it possible for cancer patients who are isolating, feeling poorly, restricted from driving, or having to be at the hospital for an infusion, convenient access our vitally effective and supportive cancer care. Our programs and servi