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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

Hospice News

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. Constructed in 2006 as the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, the facility was renovated after its closure in 2011. The nonprofit opened a new hospice center this month in Springfield, Ohio.

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Former VITAS Manager Becomes VP of Operations; Hawaii E.D. Doc Turns Hospice Medical Director

Hospice News

In addition to hospice, the nonprofit provider also offers palliative care and grief support. Since 2006 he has held leadership roles in health care association accounting and finance teams. Kaua‘i Hospice has served patients since 1983 and is the only hospice provider located on the “Garden Island” in Lihu‘e, Hawaii.

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Inspiration from Marion Woodman

Elaine Mansfield

We shared letters for years, sometimes focusing on dreams and sometimes on our love for our husbands, especially after Vic’s cancer diagnosis in 2006 and after his death in 2008. Sometimes you wrote about aging and grief and struggles with health. The hearing issues you shared in 2009 remind me of my challenges now.

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Mental Health Advocate Works to Lift Suicide’s Stigma

Solace

Portland media personality Sheila Hamilton ’s life and career changed forever when in December of 2006, she learned David, her husband and the father of her nine-year-old daughter Sophie, had died by suicide. For me, actually, it was having a moment where my body integrated the grief and the trauma.” And that is the wave of grief.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: Yep. We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care.

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