Sometimes healing has no words. Sometimes it’s a color. After the death of Barbara Coleman’s adult daughter, Cherie, words weren’t available. They...
Improving the Quality of Life
Center for Hospice Care’s mission is to improve the quality of living. We do this in a number of ways through our compassionate care, and our commitment to helping our patients experience life to the fullest possible in the remaining time.
Here are a few stories about how our patients have embraced and exemplified our mission. We hope you are touched and inspired.
One Man’s Dying Wish to be Reborn
When church after church refused to baptize a dying man, the Center for Hospice Care stepped in to help grant his last...
Georgia’s Weeping Willow
Georgia Dunbar, who sits quiet most days, her mind clouded with dementia, can still sing a few lines of her own song....
Meet Wilbur Lewis
WWII veteran Wilbur Lewis came to us one day in the spring of 2016 with terminal cancer, but you wouldn’t know it...
Flowers for Trisha
What makes you excited to wake up every morning? What are you anxiously anticipating? It’s different for all of us. From fresh...
Dancing Danny
Danny has been dancing all his life. Hard to imagine that at the age of six, Danny was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular...
Earlier the Better
Kay and Tom Tyler are not new to the area but will be wintering in Indiana for the first time in years....
Adventures with Pete
“Kenneth is my dad’s name,” Pete shared with me when I met him. Though his name is also Kenneth, he said it’s...
Happy Feet
Quality of life isn’t necessarily anything huge or fancy. It’s always in the little things: memories, people, and moments. Sometimes it’s as...