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Goals of Care: Empowering Patients with Clear Communication Sep 6, 2024
Goals of Care: Empowering Patients with Clear Communication

Patients benefit from clear discussions about their care preferences in every healthcare setting. Hospice Goals of Care are in-depth, no-cost consultations between the patient, their family, and healthcare providers. When a person enters hospice ...

Helping a Patient's Dream Come True Sep 6, 2024
Helping a Patient's Dream Come True

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 ...

Nurse Finds Fresh Purpose After Kline House Experience Sep 2, 2024
Nurse Finds Fresh Purpose After Kline House Experience

Jen Sachar lived through challenges that are not uncommon when it comes to caring for elderly parents. “In 2019,” she says, “we had to move my mother from New Jersey to Maryland, because she had no other family around her and had just suffered a ...

Offering Grief Support for Healthcare Professionals May 28, 2024
Offering Grief Support for Healthcare Professionals

When a patient dies, it is expected for their loved ones to grieve. While healthcare professionals are accustomed to death, they, too, can be deeply affected by the loss of a patient. It is important that their grief is acknowledged too. “The grief ...

"Nurse Hadley" Visits Frederick May 22, 2024
"Nurse Hadley" Visits Frederick

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 ...

Music Brings Joy, Peace and Connection May 22, 2024
Music Brings Joy, Peace and Connection

Richard Schwartz can’t remember a time when he didn’t love music. From his childhood, during his Army service, and throughout his long and happy marriage to his beloved Darlene, traditional Christian hymns, musical scores and old-time rock-and-roll ...

Frederick Health Hospice Expands Services into Montgomery County, MD Mar 12, 2024
Frederick Health Hospice Expands Services into Montgomery County, MD

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 ...

Hospice Grief Programs Help All Ages Jan 2, 2024
Hospice Grief Programs Help All Ages

Following the heartbreaking loss of their 2-year-old son, Beckett, the Hartner family found comfort not only in their community but also in Frederick Health Hospice's grief support programs, Camp Jamie and Project Christine. Camp Jamie especially ...

Patricia Clock Was a Force of Nature Nov 15, 2023
Patricia Clock Was a Force of Nature

Despite the physical and cognitive challenges she faced from her Parkinson’s Disease, Patricia Clock lived her life with passion and energy. A caregiver to others throughout her life, it was always difficult for her to acknowledge when she needed ...

Preparing a new generation of caregivers Nov 15, 2023
Preparing a new generation of caregivers

One of the best ways to reverse stigma is to educate the younger generation. In a new partnership between Hospice and the Department of Nursing at Hood College, future healthcare providers are getting hands-on experience while learning about hospice ...

Healing From Grief Through Shared Languages Oct 15, 2023
Healing From Grief Through Shared Languages

As an extension of Frederick Health Hospice, the Equal Access Bereavement Program provides grief support, at no cost, to Hispanic residents and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in Frederick County with the help of Spanish-speaking ...

Board Member Spotlight: Charlie Smith Sep 15, 2023
Board Member Spotlight: Charlie Smith

Charlie Smith’s day job as Frederick County State's Attorney often involves helping victims of crime get justice for the loss of their loved ones. As such, he is no stranger to death. It wasn’t really until his own father, J. Charles Smith, Jr., a ...

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Helping a Patient's Dream Come True

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Nurse Finds Fresh Purpose After Kline House Experience

Nurse Finds Fresh Purpose After Kline House Experience

Sep 2, 2024
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