PeaceHealth expands SelfCare for HealthCare™ program to caregivers at both Sacred Heart Medical Center campuses

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Nationally acclaimed author, nurse and speaker LeAnn Thieman will bring her transformational SelfCare for HealthCare™ program to nursing and ancillary caregivers at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield and at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center, University District, in Eugene.

Thieman will be on the RiverBend campus on Oct. 6-8 and on the University District campus on Oct. 9.

By sharing stories from her best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul, Inspiration for Nurses and her own 30+ years at the bedside, Thieman teaches selfcare strategies while honoring caregivers and their daily contributions and sacrifices. And those sacrifices have been monumental in these challenging times of COVID-19, area wildfires and social unrest.

SelfCare for HealthCare™ is based upon a simple principle: to nurture the bodies, minds and spirits of patients, we must first nurture their caregivers.

Last year, Thieman brought the program to nurses at the RiverBend campus in Springfield. Based on that success, PeaceHealth is now offering it at both Sacred Heart campuses in Springfield and Eugene.

“Our PeaceHealth caregivers need this program again now more than ever,” says Heather Wall, chief nursing officer for the PeaceHealth Oregon network. “They have worked tirelessly with tremendous fortitude and commitment. We have had such great results with the first year of the program that we are reinvesting in our most valuable asset, our caregivers. We are committed to their health and well-being. “

Thieman is author of 14 Chicken Soup for the Soul books, including three in the series for nurses and Chicken Soup for the Caregiver’s Soul. Her speaking career began when she was “accidentally” caught up in the Vietnam Orphan Airlift in 1975, when she helped to rescue 300 babies at the end of the Vietnam War.

Thieman is an expert in healthcare recruitment and retention and helps to hire and inspire health professionals from coast to coast.

“I am honored to be partnering with the amazing leadership at PeaceHealth and am inspired by their commitment to the health and happiness of their entire staff,”

Thieman says.

About PeaceHealth: PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a not-for-profit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a group practice with more than 900 providers and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest. In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. The Sisters shared expertise and transferred wisdom from one medical center to another, always finding the best way to serve the unmet need for healthcare in their communities. Today, PeaceHealth is the legacy of the founding Sisters and continues with a spirit of respect, stewardship, collaboration and social justice in fulfilling its Mission. Visit us online at peacehealth.org.