Dr. Vernette Carlson, medical director at UP Health System Hospice in Menominee, MI
Dr. Vernette Carlson, medical director at UP Health System Hospice in Menominee, Mich., has found a very special way to bring comfort and joy to the hospice patients served in her area. On her own time, Dr. Carlson gathers supplies and makes beautiful wooden ornaments...Geraldine Rowan-Queen, volunteer, West Virginia Hospice in Buckhannon, WV
Geraldine “Gerri” Rowan-Queen is a volunteer at West Virginia Hospice in Buckhannon, W. Va. Gerri is 72 years old and has four children, 11 grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and another one on the way. She spent three years of her childhood in an orphanage after...Sylvia Johnson, bereavement coordinator, Louisiana Hospice & Palliative Care in Opelousas, LA
Sylvia Johnson is the bereavement coordinator for Louisiana Hospice & Palliative Care in Opelousas, La. She has really taken the agency’s grief support program and made it her own. Several families served by the program needed to extend their services past the...
Remington, University of Tennessee Hospice in Morristown, TN
Remington is a volunteer pet therapy dog at University of Tennessee Hospice in Morristown, Tenn. He is a boxer-mix adopted from a local animal rescue. After regular obedience training, he went through the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine to be...West Virginia Hospice in Buckhannon, WV
A few weeks ago, West Virginia Hospice in Buckhannon, W. Va., received a referral for a patient who had only recently learned that he had lung cancer with extensive metastasis throughout his body. He chose to forgo any treatment, but was not totally sure he was ready...Connect With Us
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