{"id":38300,"date":"2026-07-24T00:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/24\/essentia-health-calls-for-volunteer-therapy-pet-teams-to-join-their-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:45:58","slug":"essentia-health-calls-for-volunteer-therapy-pet-teams-to-join-their-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/24\/essentia-health-calls-for-volunteer-therapy-pet-teams-to-join-their-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentia Health Calls for Volunteer Therapy Pet Teams to Join Their Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duluth, MN<\/strong> \u2013 Essentia Health is on the lookout for dedicated dog-and-owner pairs to join its therapy teams at various clinics and hospitals. These teams play a crucial role in providing comfort and support to patients during their visits.<\/p>\n<p>The health system is aiming to grow its therapy dog program, which has proven to be a wonderful way to connect with patients. For instance, in April, Karen and her cockalier, Lars, were already making a difference as a therapy team at Essentia.<\/p>\n<p>If you and your furry friend are interested in making a positive impact in the community, you can find more information about the requirements and sign up to volunteer through their website.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duluth, MN \u2013 Essentia Health is on the lookout for dedicated dog-and-owner pairs to join its therapy teams at various clinics and hospitals. These teams play a crucial role in providing comfort and support to patients during their visits. The health system is aiming to grow its therapy dog program, which has proven to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2469,50537,47516,16963,50536,19020],"class_list":["post-38300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-dogs","tag-duluth","tag-essentia","tag-minnesota","tag-therapy-pets","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}