Posts in December, 2025

Community Leader Chooses Early Hospice for Comfort and Peace Dec 17, 2025
Community Leader Chooses Early Hospice for Comfort and Peace

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 ...

Loving Our Community Well Dec 10, 2025
Loving Our Community Well

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 ...

If I Could Talk to My Brother Dec 8, 2025
If I Could Talk to My Brother

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 ...

Inspiring Stories

Hospice & Music Therapy: How It Helps

Hospice & Music Therapy: How It Helps

Sep 1, 2026
When we’re well, music is such a constant part of life ...
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Volunteers Serve Patients in Active Transition

Volunteers Serve Patients in Active Transition

Sep 1, 2026
The prospect of grief and the idea of hospice are ...
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