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Compassion and How it Relates to Your Quality of Care
When Compassion Hospice was founded in 2007, it wasn’t an accident that we chose our name as Compassion Hospice. Compassion and quality go hand in hand. Compassion for our family, neighbors and fellow Southeast Texans is the driving force behind our care during this important time. It’s easy for agencies to say they’re the best, more difficult to get others to do so. Medicare recently created their hospice compare website to help cut through the marketing speech and give those who are looking the tools to make an informed decision. The information includes the results of family satisfaction surveys – the experience of families have with their loved ones on hospice care. These…
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I Want to Talk About My Son Brooks
“When your newborn child is going to pass away, there are all sorts of questions that you need to ask. Questions you’ve never thought about before, and never figured you’d ever need to be asking. There are a bunch of them. And they’re all terrible.” Children in hospice aren’t common, this is one story of how a parent dealth with this heart-wrenching time. I Want to Talk About My Son Brooks A movingly written essay by the Los Angeles Dodger Rich Hill tells story of their second born son Brooks. Born with a rare genetic disorder, Brooks spent a lot of time in the hospital just trying to figure out what was happening.…
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Tuesday’s Thoughts
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
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Our Greatest Generation
“Au nom du Président de la République, nous vous remettons les insignes de chevalier de l’ordre de la Légion d’Honneur” And with that we were honored to observe one of our greatest generation receive France’s highest honor in a ceremony with French Consul General Alexis Andres this afternoon in Beaumont. The “Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor” – is the French equivalent of the Medal of Honor, given for bravery in fighting for France (and for Americans fighting on French soil). Mr Andres reprised our long history of fighting alongside France for more than 230 years and pinned the medal on our knight. Landing on Normandy beach on D-Day, fighting during…
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Alzheimer’s and Personal Care Choices
For those of us with Alzheimer’s, making our needs and desires known becomes increasingly more difficult as the illness progresses. With Alzheimers personal care choices and needs will change over time. Making our personal care choices known while we are still able to understand their meaning can reduce stress and improve our quality of life as we ease into later years. Advanced dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is the sixth leading cause of death overall in the United States. It is the fifth leading cause for people over 65, and the third for those over 85. Yet once the disease approaches its terminal stages, patients are unable to communicate their desires for or against…
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