Patient Stories

I am honored to introduce myself as the new Director of Hospice and Palliative Care. With over a decade of senior leadership experience in healthcare operations, I view hospice as a powerful intersection of medical excellence, human connection, and ...

When we think of someone retiring after a successful career, we don’t usually picture a dog – and yet Hospice’s most celebrated recent retiree is therapy goldendoodle Steeler, along with his dedicated handler Linda Kinna-Engel. A former Hospice ...

Two of Laura Blackwell’s strongest memories from Camp Jamie are a creative relay race involving donuts, and making a memory box to remind her of her father, who died when she was eight. “I actually still have the memory box,” she says. “It was ...

Scott and David Schulman’s mother Carole was at first skeptical of earlier hospice because, like many in the broader community, she thought hospice only served people with days to live. Luckily for the Schulman family, Scott’s wife Gayle is a ...

JoAnn and Charles Packan, were lifelong best friends who did everything together, so it was fitting that they entered hospice together as well. For their four children, it had become very difficult to manage their increasing care needs, and when they ...

Joyce Rhodes’s husband Edmond spent only a short time at Kline House before he passed, but it was long enough for her to be thoroughly impressed and deeply grateful for Hospice’s compassionate care. “I can’t say enough good things about our ...

Support Hospice and add a meaningful bracelet to your collection. 100% of the profits from the sale of this beautiful Em(brace)let will go directly to support Frederick Health Hospice. This Em(brace)let is a lovely way to honor a loved one or friend ...

Did you know that the Hospice bereavement team provides individual grief counseling for Frederick County Public School students? Today, through a state grant, grief counselor Laura Fernandez, LCPC, is solely dedicated to providing inschool grief ...

Frederick Health Hospice is excited to announce that Korey Cobb has joined the nonprofit organization as its new Director, only the third director since the hospice was founded in 1980. Frederick Health Hospice has served the Frederick community as a ...

The Community Foundation of Frederick County’s Wertheimer Award for Excellence in Volunteerism exists to reward those who otherwise wouldn’t draw attention to their tireless service, and prolific hospice volunteer Elaine Junker certainly deserves it. ...

Holly Shifrin, a volunteer who’s been serving with Hospice for six months, has known how to sew since she was a child. “My mother taught me,” she recalls. She didn’t imagine that it was a skill she would use in keeping a hospice patient company, but ...

When most people think of music therapy, they don’t necessarily think of humor, yet Diane Huseman’s latest music therapy project makes her laugh. Diane is a hospice patient at Spring Arbor Senior Living, who has been working with Hospice music ...