Hospice 101

APRIL 20, 2020

“Many of our hospice volunteers don’t even realize the impact they have on the lives they touch”. Volunteers are valuable members of our society. Volunteers are found everywhere! And then, there are the hospice volunteers. Working in the field of hospice is not an easy task, emotionally.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Henrietta was going to be my new hospice patient, my first at this particular nursing home. Later, she would become my first patient whose health improved so much she was discharged from hospice care. A light coating of chicken grease looked like high-priced lip gloss when I walked closer to her.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

He was admitted immediately and later placed with other AIDS patients in an isolated section of a nursing home. She said she wanted to see him before he died and that she was busy taking care of her husband, her children, and being a waitress. This was my first major introduction to hospice care.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Hoping to inspire a conversation about facing death, he let photographer Joshua Bright take pictures of his last days on Earth at home in hospice care. John Hawkins had a good death.

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