Therapy dog team helps create program providing pet care for hospital patients

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Therapy dog team helps create program providing pet care for hospital patients
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When Barb O’Dwyer and Mack walk into a room, it’s hard to tell who gets more attention. Mack is a therapy dog, and he and Barb have been volunteering at Centura St. Anthony North since 2019.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. –

Barb and Mack are more than just a therapy dog team at the hospital. Barb volunteers as the coordinator for the hospital’s therapy dog program, managing all 14 teams that work at the hospital. Even though Covid-19 protocols kept them away from the building for seven months, Barb and Mack have made more than 220 hospital visits in the last three years. Those visits are on top of Barb’s real job as a project manager – a job requiring skills she used when she volunteered to help create the Paws 4 Paws program at the hospital.

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