{"id":69,"date":"2021-04-29T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wordpress\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:34:04","slug":"noda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/spiritual-care-at-hmc\/noda\/","title":{"rendered":"NODA Program – No One Dies Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThere is such strong meaning in just being in the presence of someone else. It\u2019s an intangible, powerful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n~ Christine Wang, Harborview NODA Volunteer, in “No One Dies Alone” <\/em>by Billie Featherston – full story below<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What is NODA?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

NODA volunteers offer companionship to dying patients at Harborview who are without family or friends to sit with them.<\/strong> The companionship offered is very simple and is based on what the person or their next of kin requests – holding the person\u2019s hand, reading, praying, singing, sitting quietly. It is non-sectarian and volunteers do not proselytize, respecting the patient and the patient\u2019s own faith tradition. Training is provided to new NODA volunteers by the Harborview Spiritual Care Department and Harborview Volunteer Services Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All patients meeting admissions criteria are eligible for the NODA program regardless of ethnicity, race, gender identity, gender expression, age, religious\/spiritual tradition, national origin, sexual orientation, lifestyle, or disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harborview NODA on New Day Northwest, KING 5
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No One Dies Alone: <\/em>A program at Harborview Medical Center offers peace f<\/em>or the dying and meaning to the living<\/em>
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No One Dies Alone: At Harborview Medical Center, Volunteers Sit With the Dying – And It Changes Lives<\/em>
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Ann Patnaude, Harborview NODA Volunteer, and Jill Rasmussen-Baker, Director of Spiritual Care at Harborview, share about Harborview’s NODA program with KING 5’s New Day Northwest<\/em> host Margaret Larson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Listen as Rob Long, Harborview NODA volunteer, shares with DailyUW
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Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn more about Harborview’s NODA Program in the Fall 2018 issue of UW Medicine Magazine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the cover story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere is such strong meaning in just being in the presence of someone else. It\u2019s an intangible, powerful thing.\u201d ~ Christine Wang, Harborview NODA Volunteer, in “No One Dies Alone” by Billie Featherston – full story below What is NODA? NODA volunteers offer companionship to dying patients at Harborview who are without family or friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":105,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chaplain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}