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 ...

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 ...

In her words... The very moment my family needed it, I admit I didn’t know much about hospice care. I didn’t know that our own Frederick Health Hospice had been serving the people of Frederick County for over 40 years without regard for their ability ...

“Everyone experiences loss,” says Camp Jamie volunteer, Elaheh Eghbal. She continues that Camp Jamie “gives kids the tools to cope.” Elaheh, a Camp Jamie volunteer since 2021, says that Camp helps build a supportive community for volunteers and ...

Applying for veterans benefits can already be an overwhelming task for families, especially when their loved one is in hospice care. As Hospice Veteran Liaisons, Eric Jorgensen and Bob Lebron are dedicated to helping veterans and their families ...

Emotional support is an important part of the care hospice provides…but what exactly does that mean? “Sometimes, emotional care means encouraging a patient to have a conversation they’ve been putting off,” says nurse Tina Lerch. “Other times, it’s ...