A Brief but Spectacular Take on Compassionate Care During COVID-19 Dr. Diane Meier is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care in New York City. As a palliative care specialist, she has an intimate view of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting patients and their loved ones. Meier shares her Brief But Spectacular take on showing compassion during COVID-19. As seen on PBS News Hour Recent News
CEO Message: March 2020 Dear Friends, I began composing this letter towards the end of February, thinking about HOPEGives. But today March 17th, as I return to writing, the world is in a healthcare crisis and we each need to examine how to instill confidence and hope. Our healthcare system will be taxed, and our patience will be tested. At Hospice Giving Foundation, our primary focus is to ensure excellent care for
Juntos con Esperanza hosted our third community outreach event on January 31, 2020 at Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield More than 100 people (children to grandparents) attended our third community outreach event focusing on conversations about death and dying using the GoWish Card Game in Spanish and English. Facilitators at each of the participant tables guided attendees in the use of the cards and shared their table’s top three choices for
Hospice Giving Foundation’s Discover HOPEGives Community Experience held at Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley on Saturday, January 11, 2020 featured great conversations, family friendly activities and crafts, information and resources, and learning about end-of-life care from local doctors. Some participants explored deeper during a 4-hour workshop, GRIEF TO BEAUTY Creating Earth Altars to Honor our Lives and Death with Day Schildkret of Morning Altars.
South County Latino Mobile Resource Center Ribbon Cutting On Friday, November 1, 2019 Pictured right to left: Siobhan Greene, CEO/President, Hospice Giving Foundation; Janet Bessemer, Chamber Manager at King City Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture; and Dwight Wilson CEO/President Central Coast VNA & Hospice. Siobhan Greene, CEO/President of HG Foundation spoke at the ribbon-cutting with the King City Chamber of Commerce and VNA on Friday, November 1st at
Juntos con Esperanza hosted our second community outreach event on October 23, 2019 at First Baptist Church, King City More than 20 people (children to grandparents) attended our second community outreach event focusing on conversations about death and dying using the GoWish Card Game in English and Spanish. Facilitators at each of the participant tables guided attendees in the use of the cards and shared their table’s top three choices
Hope is such a simple, sweet word. We hear it so often. It conjures up warm feelings, melancholy, certainly some level of anticipation. And yet, as words go, it is tough to define, probably because it means something unique to almost everyone. Expressions prompt us to make it easier: “Just have a little hope.” “Don’t give up hope.” “Hope springs eternal.” But those expressions don’t generally get the job done. We each must define what hope means to us and how we go about capturing this elusive hummingbird in our lives.
Juntos con Esperanza hosted our first community outreach event on August 20, 2019 at St. John’s Catholic Parish, King City More than 100 people (infants to grandparents) attended our first community outreach event focusing on conversations about death and dying using the GoWish Card Game in English and Spanish. Facilitators at each of the ten participant tables (one English and nine Spanish) guided attendees in the use of the cards and shared
Bench for Bob, Love Letters, and Legacies Bob was a retired psychoanalyst, a VNP as he used to say (very nice person!), and in his spare time an extraordinary woodworker. He was a deep listener, sometimes a consoler, and for many, his wisdom was a life line. Julia lived until 102. Her final act of love was written in her will to express her gratitude through carefully selected gifts to family,
National Hospice and Palliative Care Month is celebrated every November across the nation to increase public awareness about the benefits of hospice and palliative care. This year’s theme is My Hospice. A Program that Works. A Benefit that Matters. What began as primarily a volunteer-driven, grassroots movement in the 1970’s, hospice is now an integrated part of our nation’s health care delivery system providing care to more than 1.43 million Medicare beneficiaries and their
