Category: Volunteers!

Hospice hosts Love Light Ceremony

LouEllen Blake, Licensed Social Worker and Bereavement/Volunteer Coordinator for WV Hospice, stated, “We view this as our gift to our families. See the full Hospice Volunteers article.

Provincial govt tries to bully Canadian hospice into killing sick patients

The province could go as far as to shut down the Delta Hospice Society, which … patients and would traumatize not only them, but also staff and volunteers. “Hospice palliative care is not about hastening death and we object to…

HEALTH COLUMN: New hospice opens in Huntington

The team of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, chaplains and volunteers work together to meet the patient’s physical, emotional and … See the full Hospice Volunteers article.

More Americans are dying at home. Is that a good thing?

Yet since the 1960s, the hospital and intensive care unit have become places of …. Only about half of Americans die while receiving hospice services, and …. of the time by a hospice volunteer, and the rest of time a…

Hospice eases burdens for patients, loved ones

Hospice of Chattanooga wants to bring or keep loved ones at home for the holidays, … “We are always looking for more volunteers,” Straub said. See the full Hospice Volunteers article.