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St. Croix’s New Minnesota Location Supports Staff Amid Growth

Hospice News

Launched in 2008, St. Croix offers advance care planning support, bereavement services and a North Star program for dementia symptom management. You really only get one chance with each of these patients, and its really important. Croix Hospice has widened its geographic footprint across 10 Midwestern states.

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Several Large Hospice Providers See Leadership Transitions

Hospice News

Empath Health offers hospice, home health, palliative care, bereavement support, adult day services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) programs, and primary, elderly and geriatric care. from 2008 to 2020. The company in 2008 opened its first location in Texas. Shifts at Pennants Board The Pennant Group Inc.s

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Community Hospice & Palliative Care Pediatric Program Doubles Nursing Workforce as Census Grows

Hospice News

The pediatric program’s current average daily census hovers around 240 patients, a climb from roughly 55 patients in 2008, according to Danielle Eaves, child life and therapeutic recreation specialist for the Community PedsCare program.

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

Hospice News

She began as a nurse at the hospice in 2010, and started her career at Berkeley Medical Center in 2008 as a primary nurse and charge nurse in the progressive care unit. Proceeds from the stores fund its grief program, Wings of Hope Family Bereavement Camps, and also help support hospice patients and families with special needs.

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Tell Us a Story about Love

Elaine Mansfield

Dedicated to Vic Mansfield (1941-2008) Do you have love stories to tell? We grilled sandwiches, Drank wine, and smoked Mexican pot. Your resistance vanished like smoke in the wind. I was 22 and you were 26. …Death felt far away. I’ve told so many, but I’d like to hear yours if you’ll share a few.

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Strong Hearts Carry Both Joy and Sorrow

Elaine Mansfield

Vic died on June 3, 2008— many years ago and oh so recent. I stand at the granite cairn where Vic’s ashes are buried and listen to a Red-Winged Blackbird call from the swamp at the forest’s edge. Trout Lily (Dog Toothed Violet). I’ve learned to carry the grief of death near the love that still supports me every day.

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Talking With a Hospice Chaplain

Journey With Deanna

Blane Brazier has worked full time in hospice since 2008. He currently works at Amity Hospice as their Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator where he also facilitates grief groups for bereaved family members. He has a unique ministry of using his guitar or sometimes the ukulele to engage the spiritual life of his patient's.