BY LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF A Salt Lake City hospice catering to the Utah’s homeless hosted a wedding for two residents who fell in love. Ernie Dubose, 61, and Linda Lemieux, 50, found comfort and love at the The INN Between. The couple married June 12 in the hospice’s new facility. They began dating in March. […]
New Netflix Offering Highlights Hospice Care BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmedia.org You’ve been dealt a hand of cards. We could wish we had different cards, or we could play a different game, but this is where we are now. That’s what palliative care specialist Dr. Steve Pentilat tells the defiant family of a dying middle-aged […]
‘You’re truly remarkable people. Your presence is a blessing.’ LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Former Vice President Joe Biden praised hospice nurses during an event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Visiting Nurse Health System. “Simply put, you do God’s work,” Biden told a crowd of nurses in Atlanta, Ga., last week. Pleased to join @JoeBiden […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law this month a bill to evaluate the state’s health care resources for seriously and terminally ill patients. The new law establishes the state’s first Palliative Care and Quality of Life Study Committee, which is designed to offer insight about such care and provide […]
BY EDO BANACH, JD | President and CEO, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Within the hospice community, we have a shared vision of bringing the best that humankind can offer to all those individuals facing serious, advanced and life-limiting illness. Choosing to elect hospice care is an important decision that can greatly benefit patients with life-limiting […]