Empath Health News and Blog
Making an Impact on Care
Congratulations to our July Impact Award winner, Dawn Melvin, LCSW, a bereavement counselor for Suncoast Hospice. Melvin joined Suncoast Hospice in 2004. She helps bring hope and healing for families whose loved ones died in our care through individual counseling and...
Comforts at Care Centers
Caring for our Suncoast Hospice patients and families takes tender touch and comfort. When our patients are in the state of severe pain and stress, they may come to our Care Centers for short-term stays, skilled medical treatment and relief. The care teams also...
The Little Known Who Make The World A Better Place
The world is filled with good-hearted people who are meeting the challenges of life with creativity and compassion. People who quietly go about making the world a better place every day with no fanfare or notoriety. The Broadway musical “Come From Away” tells the...
Making an Impact in Care
Congratulations to our June Impact Award winner, Kathy Diangikes, RN, an admissions nurse on the Empath Health care navigation team. Diangikes joined in 2017. She goes out to homes and in hospitals doing admissions for Suncoast Hospice. She meets with patients and...
Putting The Brakes On Monday
Sometimes when I wake up on Monday morning I almost feel like my eyes are barely open before my brain starts the download of all the things that I have to do that day and throughout the week. How easy it is to get caught up in the urgency of it all and the daily race...
Women’s Giving Network Grows and Grants New Funding
The Empath Health Women’s Giving Network (WGN) recently joined together for its third annual luncheon meeting to award micro-grants for Empath Health programs and services. The network of now 26 members awarded their allocated $23,625 to six of the 11 proposed...
Women’s Giving Network Awards $23,625 in Micro-grants to Empath Health Programs
Clearwater, Fla. (July 8, 2019) – For the third year in a row, the Empath Health Women’s Giving Network (WGN) has awarded micro-grants to worthy projects across the organization. This year’s allocated funding was a record $23,625, awarded to six exemplary support...
Conflict As Opportunity
If there is one thing that you can count on when two or more people get together it’s conflict. I would venture to say that we even have internal conflicts when we are alone! In spite of how widespread and inevitable conflict is, few of us feel comfortable or equipped...
Empath Health Honors Veterans Recording Their War-Time Stories
Israel “Butch” Miller joined the Navy with his sight set on going to Vietnam. Instead he landed in California at Naval Hospital Oakland. He served as a lieutenant and one of the first commissioned male nurses in the Navy, caring for many service members wounded in...
Are You Planning Your “Big Rocks?”
If we are not careful, one of the casualties of a busy life can be our relationships. We end up missing out on those opportunities to spend time together, catch up with old friends and former colleagues, and be there to support one another through difficult times....
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