Angela’s Blog
Read the many stories on our people, our programs, and our passion for serving others.
When Is It Time for Hospice Care: Heart Failure
Angela Hospice Nurse Practitioner Kristina Kosta discusses end-stage heart disease and how individuals can know when hospice care might be...
Angela Hospice CEO to Retire; Successor Named
Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai has announced her plan to retire later this year. The organization has named Executive Director Jamie...
Growing Through Grief
Jasmine Kendrick on her fourth birthday with her mother, April Jackson. Social worker Jasmine Kendrick lost her mother at just four years old. She...
Planting Joy
Imagine dozens of begonias, different colors combining together to make a beautiful image in the ground, an entire picture complete in what once...
Brief History of Memorial Day
Memorial Day was not an official holiday until 1971 after the Congressional mandate. Prior to that time, Memorial Day was considered Decoration Day....
Grief and Gratitude
Grief and gratitude…two topics that seem to be as far away from one another as possible. Experiencing the loss of a loved one will change life as...
Finding a Sense of Peace and Comfort
Christine Kuszai knows not everyone believes in psychics, so she was never one to go around offering predictions – but at least once she was able to...
Volunteer Appreciation Week 2024
The volunteers at Angela Hospice work diligently with our staff in every area of Angela Hospice, from volunteering with our administration team to...
Angela Hospice Expands
With an eye toward bringing comforting, compassionate care to more families during a loved one’s end-of-life journey, Angela Hospice is pleased to...
Write and Release: The Benefits of Journaling When You’re Grieving
Becca Guenther, Angela Hospice Grief Care Counselor, discusses the benefits of journaling while
Grief’s Duality: Reacting versus Responding in Times of Loss
We often think of the terms “respond” and “react” as interchangeable, but did you know that there is a distinct and important difference between the...
Not Just a Job
For over 20 years David Barrett has worked as an Angela Hospice social worker, and has been thankful for every moment of it. “I love the different...
Faith Fulfilled
This week -- March 8-14 -- we celebrate Catholic Sisters Week, a time to celebrate Catholic Sisters around the country, including the Felician...
Angela Hospice Named a 4-Star Hospice with Care Compare
As a hospice we are required to participate in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program, where we report on data that families have sent in about their...
C’est La Vie
Throughout the 11 days Carl Misch was in the Angela Hospice Care Center, he and his family shared many special memories together, one standing out...
Keeping the Connection Going
Jennifer Kennedy has a career and personal history filled with different Michigan non-profits, leaving her mark on each one, bringing depths of...
Imparting Peace
When Daniel Celmer brought his Aunt Clare to the Angela Hospice Care Center, she looked around her room, taking it all in – the furnishings, the...
Called to Care
Angela Hospice would be nothing without its exceptional team. But what inspires these compassionate, caring souls to pursue this noble profession?...
Protecting The Pope
On the wall of Donald “Don” Zimmerman’s room in the Angela Hospice Care Center hung what simply looked like a photo of two men shaking hands, a...
New Year’s Resolutions
Even as you face loss, the world keeps turning and time keeps ticking. In the winter is often when it seems most noticeable: people plan holiday...