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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 ...

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 ...

Grief looks different for everyone, but one of the most healing ways that family members can deal with difficult loss is to channel the feeling into action. Autumn Mehta, who lost her younger brother Gabriel to overdose, and Jerry Pierson, who lost ...

Like many hospice families, Brad Pingrey feels that hospice provided indispensable and empathetic support during an experience that would be taxing for anyone. In 2015, his wife, Donna, was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), a rare ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems like fall arrived just yesterday, but before we know it, we’ll be heading into those colder months that cause us to reflect on the people and opportunities bringing warmth to our lives. Gathering with family and friends naturally causes us ...

Over 400 people attended hospice's lecture and book signing featuring Hadley Vlahos, R.N., a hospice registered nurse and TikTok star (“Nurse Hadley”) at the forefront of a movement to change attitudes about death and end-of-life journeys. We were ...

Frederick Health Hospice is excited to announce that the Adventist HealthCare system in Montgomery County, Maryland, has selected them as their hospice of choice. Frederick Health Hospice will provide general in-patient level of hospice care to ...