{"id":356631,"date":"2021-11-29T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=356631"},"modified":"2021-11-29T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:06:26","slug":"chcc-sunshine-squad-donates-1000-to-hope-recovery-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chcc-sunshine-squad-donates-1000-to-hope-recovery-center\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018CHCC Sunshine Squad\u2019 donates $1,000 to HOPE Recovery Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, emergency medicine physician and medical director of public health at the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. Dr. Lily Muldoon; internal medicine physician at CHCC Dr. Jenna Kong; special assistant for the Substance Abuse, Addiction, and Rehabilitation (SAAR) program Yvette R. Sablan; and SAAR group home supervisor Itimal Taisakan share a photo on Wednesday after a $1,000 check handoff at CHCC\u2019s admin office. The \u201cCHCC Sunshine Squad\u201d is a committee of CHCC medical staff with the goals of making quarterly donations to community organizations and building camaraderie, connection, and collaboration among CHCC staff. (JOSHUA SANTOS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just in time for last wek\u2019s observance of Thanksgiving, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2019s \u201cSunshine Squad\u201d presented on Wednesday a $1,000 check to the Hinemlu O\u2019hala Para Enteramenti, or HOPE, Recovery Center.<\/p>\n

Present for the donation handoff on Wednesday at CHCC was Yvette R. Sablan, who is special assistant for the Substance Abuse, Addiction, and Rehabilitation program under the CNMI Office of the Governor; SAAR group home supervisor Itimal Taisakan; internal medicine physician Dr. Jenna Kong; and emergency medicine physician and medical director of public health Dr. Lily Muldoon.<\/p>\n

In remarks after the handoff, on the behalf of Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, the SAAR program, and HOPE participants, Sablan expressed her gratitude to CHCC for making such a \u201cthoughtful and generous donation.\u201d With Thursday being Thanksgiving, she said there could not have been better timing to have received the donation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely thankful, and [we] sincerely appreciate this very thoughtful and generous donation. Considering that [this Thursday] is a day of giving thanks, this couldn’t come at a better time. …We can’t wait to put this to good use and we’re excited to actually share it with the participants,\u201d said Sablan.<\/p>\n

Sablan added that HOPE participants were unable to join her and Taisakan on Wednesday for COVID-19 safety reasons, but assured they too would have been \u201cvery pleased to receive this generous donation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muldoon shared that she and Kong serve on the CHCC committee that \u201chelps decide what goes on with medical staff funds\u201d and said that when the opportunity to give back to the HOPE Recovery Center came up, she and the committee took it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an emergency room doctor, I see there every day people who are suffering from substance use disorders. \u2026[I] have referred patients to the Recovery Center and have taken care of patients who have come from the center, [and] it’s really remarkable, the services that you’re able to provide,\u201d said Muldoon.<\/p>\n

When asked what the \u201cSunshine Squad\u201d was, Kong and Muldoon explained that it was the name of a committee of CHCC medical staff with the goals of making quarterly donations to community organizations and building camaraderie, connection, and collaboration among CHCC staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in time for last wek\u2019s observance of Thanksgiving, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2019s \u201cSunshine Squad\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":356632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}