by Lisa Norton | Jul 24, 2024 | Uncategorized, When is it time
Angela Hospice Nurse Practitioner Kristina Kosta discusses end-stage heart disease and how individuals can know when hospice care might be appropriate How do you know it’s time for hospice when someone has been diagnosed with heart failure? Medicare has a...
by Lisa Norton | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Angela Hospice President and CEO Marti Coplai has announced her plan to retire later this year. The organization has named Executive Director Jamie LaLonde (pictured) to succeed her in December. Marti joined Angela Hospice in 2015 as Executive Director, and assumed...
by Lisa Norton | Jun 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Jasmine Kendrick on her fourth birthday with her mother, April Jackson. Social worker Jasmine Kendrick lost her mother at just four years old. She remembers it was “a confusing upbringing.” Adults tiptoed around her, afraid of upsetting her or her grandmother. She saw...
by Dana Casadei | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Imagine dozens of begonias, different colors combining together to make a beautiful image in the ground, an entire picture complete in what once simply looked like a typical yard in front of a home. This was the kind of work that Angela Hospice patient Shirley...
by Kathryn Chapman | May 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Memorial Day was not an official holiday until 1971 after the Congressional mandate. Prior to that time, Memorial Day was considered Decoration Day. Many years after the Civil War ended (May 5, 1968), Union Veterans established Decoration Day which was devoted to...
by Lisa Norton | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
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 you know it, thrusting one to adapt to a ‘new normal.’ It brings forth life changes and a slew of emotions that can truly...
