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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 ...

Dana French has a piece of advice that he says has brought him to a “comfortable” place even as he faces terminal illness: start early. For Dana, this has applied both to living well and to his approach to hospice care, which he chose to enter not ...

Frederick County Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Rick Weldon recently visited Hospice’s all-staff meeting and delivered a message on how deeply meaningful hospice care has been to him – and Frederick Health Hospice’s powerful impact in our ...

by Jessica Thornton, LCSW-C, Grief Counselor If I could talk to my brother today, I’d say: “Dear brother, it has been eighteen years since your memorial service, where I had over fifty people say ‘Oh, your poor father,’ and your daughter reached for ...

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 ...

Hospice has a variety of partners that help support patients in the community, but a particularly longstanding and special relationship has been with Daybreak Adult Services. Christina Forbes, Director of Daybreak since 2008, says that the two ...

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 decision to admit a loved one to hospice is a challenging and heavy one for any family, but Hospice Medical Director Dr. Mary McDonald has plenty of advice. With her background in hospice and geriatrics, she understands the considerations that ...

I hope this message finds the friends of Frederick Health Hospice settling well into the new year. On behalf of the Hospice Board, I have to deliver some news that has brought us a bit of sadness, but is also an opportunity to celebrate what we’ve ...