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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 ...

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 ...

Scott and David Schulman’s mother Carole was at first skeptical of earlier hospice because, like many in the broader community, she thought hospice only served people with days to live. Luckily for the Schulman family, Scott’s wife Gayle is a ...

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 ...

JoAnn and Charles Packan, were lifelong best friends who did everything together, so it was fitting that they entered hospice together as well. For their four children, it had become very difficult to manage their increasing care needs, and when they ...

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 ...

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 ...