{"id":54062,"date":"2026-03-25T15:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/retired-montezuma-county-doctors-donate-8000-in-doctors-memory\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:31:13","slug":"retired-montezuma-county-doctors-donate-8000-in-doctors-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/retired-montezuma-county-doctors-donate-8000-in-doctors-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Montezuma County doctors donate $8,000 in doctor\u2019s memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0f7ae17e-e7bd-5975-a450-37154562bb5e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Dr. Leonard Cain died in 2012 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. (Photo courtesy of Brian Demby)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dr. Leonard Cain died in 2012 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. (Photo courtesy of Brian Demby)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>After more than 50 years, the Montezuma County chapter of the Colorado Medical Society has closed and donated its remaining $8,000 to the Southwest Memorial Hospital Foundation Cancer Grant Fund in memory of Dr. Leonard Cain.<\/p>\n<p>According to Karla Demby, Cain practiced family medicine in Cortez from 1986 to 2010, served as director of Hospice of Montezuma and worked at Southwest Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is remembered fondly by colleagues and patients as a compassionate patient-centered physician,\u201d Demby said.<\/p>\n<p>Cain died in 2012 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The donation from the group of retired physicians will add to the $10,000 the Southwest Memorial Hospital Foundation awards annually to help cancer patients offset the cost of care.<\/p>\n<p>Patients may apply online for assistance at <a href=\"www.swhealth.org\/southwest-memorial-hospital-foundation\" id=\"link-5ecc2a6743167b34ce66e4b903254370\" target=\"_blank\">www.swhealth.org\/southwest-memorial-hospital-foundation<\/a>. Those who are waiting for a cancer grant award do not need to apply again.<\/p>\n<p>To donate in Cain\u2019s memory, send a check to the SWMH Foundation, P.O. Box 1585, Cortez, CO 81321. \u201cCancer grant\u201d should be noted on the check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chapter of medical society closes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2370,21,28,61,60,29,538],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-54062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cancer","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63282,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54062\/revisions\/63282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54062"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=54062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}