The following letter to the editor by Kelly McAndrew, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator for Celtic Healthcare in NE PA, was recently published in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader on 4/16/12: During National Volunteer Week, I publicly acknowledge and thank the volunteers of Hospice Community Care. The entire staff and I value and appreciate these volunteers’ time, efforts [...]
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How can I Help my Friend or Loved One Deal with Grief?
In Part 4, the conclusion of our series on grief, we address how to help a friend or loved one deal with grief. It can be difficult to find the right words to show someone you care when they are grieving. People are often afraid of saying the wrong thing, intruding, making the person you [...]
How Can I Help My Child(ren) Deal with Grief?
In Part 3 of our series on grief, today we will look at ways in which you can help your child(ren) deal with grief. Talking to children about death must be focused on each individual child’s developmental level and sensitive to the child’s capacity to understand and comprehend the particular situation. Children will watch and [...]
How Do I Deal with this Grief?
In Part 2 of our series on Grief, we will look at the question: How do I deal with this Grief? Unfortunately, everyone loses someone close to him or her at some point during his or her life. This loss causes us to enter into a state of grieving. This time of grieving can be [...]
What is Grief?
This week, we are going to take an extensive look at Grief in a four-part blog series: What is Grief? How Do I Deal with this Grief? How Can I Help My Child(ren) Deal with Grief? How Can I Help My Loved One Deal with Grief? We will be posting a new message daily – [...]
We Honor Veterans
Congratulations on achieving We Honor Veterans Partner Level One! Your activity report reflects your organization’s commitment to ensuring Veterans have access to quality end-of-life care. All of us at NHPCO appreciate your ongoing efforts and dedication. Thank you again for your dedication to Veterans and their end-of-life care needs. Emil Zuberbueler Director, National Veterans Program [...]
Hospice in Lawrence County, PA
Celtic Healthcare’s Lawrence Team is proud to announce that we are now serving hospice patients in our Lawrence County area. We are excited to be able to offer compassionate end-of-life care to our current patients in need of transitioning to this specialized care and also our entire community of friends and family.
Common Need – A Hospice Poem
COMMON NEED They give me presence in their hour of grief as if ushering me to the front row of their tragedy. The lines are few and unnecessary as the cast is pulled out of themselves toward an expanse of common need. Then they dim the footlights and invite me on stage, and all of [...]
World Hospice & Palliative Care Day is October 8, 2011
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. This year’s theme is: Many diseases, many lives, many voices – palliative care for non-communicable conditions The focus is on how people living with conditions, which are not infectious, can benefit from palliative [...]
What happens if you change your mind about hospice care?
It’s important for you to know that if you decide at some point to pursue aggressive treatment for your illness, or if you decide that hospice care is not something you would like to pursue, you may elect to come off hospice care at any time. This process is called revocation. You may elect to [...]
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