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St. Anthony Celebrates National Home Care & Hospice Month |
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Each November, the professionals and volunteers who are privileged to provide in-home care for the sick, elderly and dying celebrate National Home Care & Hospice Month. “By maintaining the security and comfort of home, our patients get excellent care from a variety of necessary services,” said Charlene Williams, Director of St. Anthony’s Home Health and Hospice. “Today, St. Anthony’s Home Care offers a wealth of nursing, therapy, counseling, dietary, and personal care services.” November also marks an awareness of hospice services that allow terminally ill patients and their families to experience the end of life together in the comfort and security of home, or a home-like setting. “This year’s theme “The Faces of Caring” places emphasis on the way hospice can help bring quality to the final days of life,” said Williams. A person is eligible for hospice once certified by a physician as having a terminal illness with a life expectancy of six months or less. Hospice professionals and volunteers work together to provide supportive, compassionate, pain-relieving and bereavement services that focus on the quality and end-of-life care for patients and their families. St. Anthony Hospice will again sponsor their annual Tree of Love and remembrance ornaments. Ornaments may be purchased in the hospital gift shop, or through the Hospice office, in honor or memory of loved ones. On November 19th at 1:00 p.m., the Tree of Love service will remember those loved ones as the ornaments are placed on the Tree of Love in St. Anthony’s second floor atrium. Following the service, refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend and share in the gift of love and fellowship.
“As Thanksgiving approaches this year, please remember the many
gifts that our home care and hospice caregivers provide every day to
our sick, elderly and disabled,” said Williams, “Our caregivers make
a remarkable difference in the lives of the patients and families
they serve.” |
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