Posts in December, 2022

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20 years - Kline House Anniversary 2002-2022 12.02.2022
20 years - Kline House Anniversary 2002-2022

In 2000, Carl and Norma Miller donated 15 acres of rolling farmland in Mount Airy that would serve as the site of a new hospice house for residents of Frederick County. In addition to donating the land for the new facility, the Millers were actively ...

The Gifts Hospice Gave to my Family 08.19.2022
The Gifts Hospice Gave to my Family

Like many people, prior to my parents’ experience with hospice, I knew very little about it. I wondered if hospice meant “giving up.” I realize now that it is the exact opposite: it is taking back—taking back control of ...

Paving the Way to Give a Patient What He Wanted Most 06.02.2022
Paving the Way to Give a Patient What He Wanted Most

Larry Stambaugh made it clear to his family and friends that he wanted to spend his last days in the home he built with his own hands on a mountaintop in Emmitsburg 40 years ago. When Frederick Health Hospice began serving Larry, wintery conditions ...

Garnet Lynch: A Teacher in Life and Death 06.02.2022
Garnet Lynch: A Teacher in Life and Death

As a life-long educator, Garnet Lynch spent her career teaching children in Frederick County Public Schools for more than 30 years. So it should come as no surprise that her passing provides a lesson to others on how hospice cares for the ...

Creating a Safe Space to Heal 02.18.2022
Creating a Safe Space to Heal

The month of June 2020 was a blur for Lauren Nolke. Not only was this working mother of two doing her best to manage the “new normal” thrust upon her by the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, she had just learned that her beloved father, ...

Read Lionel Bowie's story 11.24.2021
Read Lionel Bowie's story

I’ve wanted to be a lot of different things in my life, but I neither wanted nor expected to be an expert on cancer. However, during my late wife Marcia’s battle with the disease, we came to understand cancer far too well. We learned that ...

When a Loved One Dies from Overdose 11.04.2021
When a Loved One Dies from Overdose

Through a partnership with the Frederick Police Department’s Victims Services Unit and the County Health Department, Hospice launched its Overdose Survivor Outreach Program to bring care, comfort and support to the families and friends of ...

Making Memories through Legacy Projects 11.03.2021
Making Memories through Legacy Projects

Many of us can relate to that feeling of coming across a letter, photo, or other memento that keeps us connected to a special person, place, or time in our lives. To hear a loved one’s voice, read their handwriting, or see their smile in a ...

Once A Veteran, Always A Veteran 05.27.2021
Once A Veteran, Always A Veteran

George Comert was determined to live independently forever, but that was not to be. As his health declined, he grew weaker and less steady on his feet. After a bad fall, even he had to agree the time had come to move in with his daughter, Lynn Besch, ...

Celebrating the Women We Call Mom 05.03.2021
Celebrating the Women We Call Mom

Mother’s Day. A day of celebrating the wonderful women in our lives we call “mom.” But for some of us this can feel like a dreaded day. There are many reasons this day can feel impossibly heavy. Maybe you lost your mother, maybe you ...

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20 years - Kline House Anniversary 2002-2022

20 years - Kline House Anniversary 2002-2022

Dec 2022
In 2000, Carl and Norma Miller donated 15 acres of ...
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The Gifts Hospice Gave to my Family

The Gifts Hospice Gave to my Family

Aug 2022
Like many people, prior to my parents’ experience ...
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