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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’re well, music is such a constant part of life that we don’t often stop to consider its therapeutic potential. For hospice patients, however, regular music therapy can make an enormous difference and be a key source of comfort and peace. ...

The prospect of grief and the idea of hospice are topics that many people face with apprehension – and yet, there are a special few who experience end-of-life care as a calling. Some of our hospice volunteers have such a love for this work that they ...

Presented by Shabri Moore, CFP®, AIF® Charitable giving is an important piece of many individuals’ financial and estate plans. Beyond the tax advantages offered by charitable donations, many people have personal reasons for giving to charities. A ...

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 ...

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 ...