Volume 4, Number 35 - November 16, 2009

In this issue:

• First ‘rapid improvement event’ translates to a better City of Hope outpatient experience
• STOP CANCER advances critical brain, breast and pancreatic cancer research  
• Musical artists Miley Cyrus, Jesse McCartney and Demi Lovato perform in the name of hope
• Designated donors can be friends for life through Blood Donor Center program

Hope floats
Patient Karina Melchor, center, poses with her father, Gustavo Melchor, and patient Kelsy Lopez as they display a rendering of the City of Hope/City of Duarte 2010 Rose Parade float themed “Harvesting Good Health.”

On New Year’s Day, the two City of Hope patients and their fellow patients Raphael Forbes, Michael Miyamoto and Jessica Mastan will ride on the float with Awa Jones, R.N., clinical nurse manager. Jones and the patients visited Pasadena, Calif.’s Tournament House for “Float Participants Photo Day” on Nov. 7. The group also met the 2010 Rose Queen and her royal court. (Photo by Roberta Nichols)