Gilead Benefit Helps Employees Navigate Cancer Care
Gilead Benefit Helps Employees Navigate Cancer Care
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / July 1, 2024 / Jim Candler had a successful 40-year career in system operations before coming to Gilead three years ago to bring his tech expertise to the Human Resources team.
吉姆·坎德勒在系統運營方面擁有40年的成功職業生涯，在三年前加入吉利德公司，將自己的技術專長帶到人力資源團隊中。
"I was hired at 71 years old. What does that say about Gilead?" says Jim, Senior Director, People Technology.
“我在71歲時受聘。這說明吉利德對我看法如何？”說這話的是人力資源高級總監吉姆。
Jim is now 74 years old and still enjoys coming to work every day. He feels especially fortunate to be working at a company that offers employees an assortment of healthcare and retirement benefits. He credits one of those benefits with providing invaluable healthcare information when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.
吉姆現在已經74歲了，每天仍然喜歡來上班。他覺得自己非常幸運能夠在一家提供各種醫療和養老福利的公司工作。他認爲其中的一項福利在他去年被診斷患有前列腺癌時提供了寶貴的醫療信息。
After seeking a series of medical opinions from a radiation oncologist, a medical oncologist, a urologist and a hormone treatment specialist, Jim was overwhelmed trying to decide which option was best for him.
在諮詢放射腫瘤學家、腫瘤學家、泌尿科專家和激素治療專家等一系列醫生之後，吉姆因爲很難決定哪種方案最好而感到不知所措。
That's when his colleagues at work told him to contact AccessHope, a cancer care support benefit that Gilead began offering to U.S. employees and their loved ones last August. The program provides a network of oncology professionals who are available to share treatment information, while also providing emotional support.
這時，他的同事告訴他聯繫AccessHope，這是吉利德自去年8月開始爲美國員工及其親屬提供的癌症護理支持福利計劃。該計劃提供了一個網絡，其中有腫瘤學專家可提供治療信息，並提供情感支持。
"Much of our discoveries here at Gilead are dedicated to treatments for those facing cancer," says Angela Sim, Senior Director, Benefits. "That's why our benefits team felt it was important to make sure our employees and their family members could seek information from oncology experts at the forefront of the latest cancer innovations."
“我們在吉利德的許多發現都是用於面對癌症的治療。”忠於服務的高級福利總監安吉拉·辛姆如是說。“這就是爲什麼我們的福利團隊覺得讓員工及其家人從處在最前沿的癌症創新領域的腫瘤學專家那裏獲得信息非常重要的原因。”
In Jim's case, he was connected with an oncology nurse who spent hours walking him through each of his treatment options.
在吉姆的情況下，他聯繫了一個腫瘤學護士，後者花費了幾個小時的時間爲他介紹他的每一個治療選擇。
"They won't tell you what to do, but they help educate you and point you to resource materials," says Jim. After speaking with the nurse and doing some more follow-up research, he was able to make a treatment decision he was at peace with.
“他們不會告訴你該怎麼做，但他們會幫助你接受教育並指導你如何獲取資源。”吉姆說。在與護士交談並進一步研究後，他能夠做出一個讓自己感到安心的治療決定。
"A big part of my job is to remove administrative burdens and help employees navigate our healthcare benefits, and now I want to let everyone know about what an incredibly helpful program I had at my disposal when I needed it the most," he says. "It didn't just help me, but my wife was also able to gain emotional support from the program during this journey, too."
“我的工作的一個重要部分就是減輕行政負擔，幫助員工了解我們的醫療保險福利，現在我想讓每個人都知道，在我最需要的時候，我可以使用一個非常有幫助的程序，”他說。“這不僅幫助了我，還讓我的妻子在這個過程中獲得情感上的支持。”
Gilead's cancer care efforts caught the attention of President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aims to improve the experience of people touched by cancer. Representatives from Gilead's Benefits team were invited to the White House in March to share best practices on ways employers can influence employee cancer screenings.
吉利德公司的癌症護理工作引起了拜登總統的“癌症登月”倡議的注意，該倡議旨在改善癌症患者的體驗。吉利德的福利團隊代表被邀請在三月份訪問白宮，分享僱主影響員工癌症篩查的最佳實踐。
Jim, meanwhile, is still undergoing treatment but is happy to say his cancer is undetectable. He also credits his annual check-ups for this good health, and he hopes his experience will serve as a reminder to others of the role regular exams and screenings can play in early detection.
與此同時，吉姆仍在接受治療，但他很高興地說他的癌症是無法檢測的。他還歸功於自己的年度檢查，這對他的健康起到了重要的作用，他希望自己的經歷能夠提醒其他人，定期檢查和篩查在早期發現疾病中扮演着重要的角色。
He also notes how grateful he is that Gilead helps him and others - from providing employees access to wellbeing services and cancer support to fostering a rewarding work environment. "I'm proof that Gilead cares about its employees."
他還注意到吉利德公司爲他和其他人提供了很多幫助——從提供員工健康福利和癌症護理支持到培養有益的工作環境。“我就是吉利德關心員工的證明。”
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