hospice News

Independent baby shop, For Your Child, is making a donation to Children’s Hospice South West of 10% of the sale price of wooden toys sold through their shop in Bude or online.

Join top celebrities for a weekend of golf at the incredible PGA National Resort & Spa!

Comprehensive Hospice and Palliative Care (CHPC) is pleased to announce that effective October 5, 2011, CHPC has been granted its’ Medicare A and B licenses.

Livingsenior.com is an online resource center that provides a wide range of valuable information for seniors and their families as they make the transition into the golden years of retirement.

Thanks to Gulfside Regional Hospice Gift of Presence volunteers, Gulfside’s patients do not have to be alone at the end of their life. Instead patients take comfort in having a trained volunteer with them during their last moments.

Montgomery Hospice professionals (with Dr. Ira Byock, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) will be teaching an upcoming course on end-of-life patient care, as part of the The Erickson School Executive Education program for leaders in seniors care.

A charity shop in Knowle celebrated its 30th birthday with one of the original volunteers on hand to make the party go with a swing.

December is a popular month for people to sign up for a gym membership and now one South West health club is offering even more of an incentive with a Christmas gift scheme for a local children’s hospice.

Independent baby shop, For Your Child, is making a donation to Children’s Hospice South West of 10% of the sale price of wooden toys sold through their shop in Bude or online.

Join top celebrities for a weekend of golf at the incredible PGA National Resort & Spa!

St Peter’s Hospice is holding a festive-themed evening at one of its local shops, giving people the chance to find the perfect Christmas party outfit.

Comprehensive Hospice and Palliative Care (CHPC) is pleased to announce that effective October 5, 2011, CHPC has been granted its’ Medicare A and B licenses.

WILD NIGHT ON THE CATWALK, a benefit for Brattleboro Area Hospice following damage due to Tropical Storm Irene. Sat, Nov 19, 6:30p. Runway show of re-purposed fashions from NE designers. Food, Music, Auction, Afterparty. Compassionforfashion.org.

Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare explains how to create a holistic Medical Records System as a core component to addressing the issues affecting the U.S. healthcare system.

HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of agencies based on an analysis of performance measures in quality outcome, process of care measures, and financial performance.

Coping with a loved one’s serious illness is not easy. Navigating the maze of healthcare services and patient needs can be overwhelming.

American folk songs and dance music, by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 3:00pm. The concert will be held at Olin Hall on the Bard College Campus, located in Annandale-on-Hudson. All proceeds will benefit Hospice.

Two local charities have been presented with over £1000 each by a Bournemouth accountancy firm.

Campus of Caring, an organization dedicated to building the first non-profit hospice home on the South Shore of Boston to be operated by the NVNA and Hospice, is preparing for their 2012 Annual Dinner & Auction Gala

Your vote counts in the national online Pink Glove Dance Competition that raises awareness for breast cancer

Big Bad Ball is coming up on October 1st. Tickets are only $125 and raffle tickets are $25.

On September 24 Ageless Radio will feature Glenn Ruffenach, editor of Next, the Wall Street Journal's guide to retirement planning & living; George Durham, a hospice chaplain who uses humor that heals; and Kyrin Dunston, MD on weight loss.

The National Hospice Foundation’s Run to Remember program is a Participating Charity Group for Miami's ING Marathon, enabling runners to support Hope Hospice. It can also be a memorable way to honor a loved one during the race on January 29, 2012.

More people need to sign onto the Government’s Gift Aid scheme when donating goods at any St Peter’s Hospice shop to help finance vital services for Bristol’s only adult hospice.

A chance knock on the door has ended with one Bristol man winning the top prize on his local charity lotto.

People from across Bristol wanting a chance to win £5,000 and support a local charity at the same time are being advised to visit their local St Peter’s Hospice shop.

Come Back Early Today: A Memoir of Love, Alzheimer’s, and Joy by Marie Marley has just been released. This compelling love story presents novel information, advice and hope to exhausted caregivers moving along the path of an overwhelming journey.

Roll Mobility is now an Authorized Dealer for Medline Industries, a major brand name in the durable medical equipment field.

"Our Community House of Hope," a nonprofit organization that will provide end-of-life care at no charge, is readying its first home to accept residents. It is seeking donated items and funding to make the house a home for the terminally ill.

Hope reached the highest level of achievement in the We Honor Veterans program by demonstrating that our veterans receive the best in care, support, and access to VA benefits. We're one of only two healthcare organizations to receive this honor.

New research shows that humor is a powerful coping mechanism even in loss.

Over a thousand women took part in a midnight walk to raise money for a Bristol (UK) hospice.

IntegraCare Home Health and Hospice locations throughout TX sponsored a donation drive with all the proceeds going to the Texas Forest Service (TFS) Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Assistance Fund and the company matching the donations.

Livingsenior.com is an online resource center that provides a wide range of valuable information for seniors and their families as they make the transition into the golden years of retirement.

CHASE hospice care for children has been announced as the first ever children’s hospice service to be awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for groups of volunteers who work in their local community for the benefit of others.

Two teams of staff from a Bristol branch of RBS have taken part in a money raising challenge for local charity St. Peter’s Hospice.

"My mother wanted to die at home," says Mary Baker of Paso Robles, California. "But we were unprepared for what we were about to face." Baker is sponsoring a proposal in this month's Pepsi Cola "Refresh Everything" grant competition.

A study completed this week provides continuing validation of Brazzell Marketing Agency's so-called "Referral Doubling Strategy." The study finds that health care providers using the strategy experience annual growth that is 375% above average.

Amnis, the productivity and improvement specialists, have announced a new study: End of Life Care – A Community Nursing Perspective.

Hospice at Home in South Haven honored its volunteers at a Friends of Hospice luncheon in May and presented the Helen White Angel of Service Award to volunteer, Marge Norman.

Bristol’s first ‘department store’ style charity shop has opened its doors with circus performers marking the occasion.

Mt. Evans Hospice & Home Health Care is launching a "Memorial Brick" fundraising program that offers the opportunity to honor and remember loved ones while supporting this nonprofit that touches so many lives in the mountain community.

Alzheimer's: A Mother Daughter Journey is an emotionally compelling story about a daughter who nurtures her Alzheimer's stricken mother and photographs her with her iPhone. The sepia toned, Zen-like images reflect a mindful and loving journey.

HospiceCare and Zimbrick Honda in Madison Wisconsin have partnered for the HospiceCare Auto Raffle. Sign up to win a 2011 Honda CR-V lease from Zimbrick Honda.

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) comes to St. Louis this August

The staff and volunteers of VNA & Hospice of SVHC invite all members of the local community to their Tree of Hope Memorial Service on Saturday, June 12, at 3 p.m. at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC).

Bristol’s St. Peter’s Hospice is encouraging people to celebrate National Flutter Week by getting involved with their Local Lotto to raise funds and be in with the chance of winning £1000 every week.

The soaring value of cotton and rags has led to a spate of thefts across Bristol which have seen bags of clothing left out for charity collection targeted by mean thieves.

NVNA and Hospice to relocate headquarters to 120 Longwater Drive in Norwell MA. The move will double the agency's space.

This program helps caregivers learn how to obtain needed community resources, manage caregiver stress, organize important documents, monitor safety and risk and decrease the sense of caregiver burden.

Hospice at Home is offering a training program for people interested in volunteering. This training will take place on Saturday, May 7th and 14th from 1:30 – 4:30 pm at the Niles Library Community Room, 620 East Main Street in Niles.

Oak Park, Mich.--Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan, the state’s largest, independent nonprofit home health care and hospice organization, is pleased to announce Lillian Birrell, RN, BSN, as clinical director of its hospice program.

Fitness fans in the West are being given the chance to sample some of the best health club facilities in the region for free and support a leading children’s charity into the bargain.

Our Community House of Hope and interior design and theatre students from Cal State Northridge are presenting a reading of "One Day, a Play about Hope," based on life stories of residents of a hospice for the homeless & low-income community.