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Ask Grieving Children How They Want to Navigate The Holiday Season

The holiday season is a time of ritual and tradition for immediate and extended families. Between decorating a tree, lighting the menorah, singing carols, baking cookies, enjoying a feast and visiting friends, the...

Expectations of the Holiday Season – Monday Message

We are heading into a holiday season filled with excitement and plans, and for many, days with sacred meaning. Sometime around the middle of November or the beginning of December, we feel the pace picking up and the...

Listening With Intent – Monday Message

This quote from the Community Programs Coordinator with Gratefulness.org came in my email last week and I was mesmerized by it. She wrote, “Listening with the intent to hear through the ears of another creates the...

Team Approach Vital to Hospice Care Philosophy

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a time at Empath Health when we celebrate what makes the care and support provided by our hospice programs unique. Suncoast Hospice, Suncoast Hospice of...

Celebrating Gratitude – Monday Message

The United States and a handful of other countries around the globe set aside a day each year for the expressed purpose of celebrating gratitude. A day to focus on the blessings and the bounty and the often-times...

Looking Back Over the Years – Monday Message

I passed a friend in the hallway the other day and we were commenting on how it is hard to believe that we are in November of 2022. The year has passed by so quickly, it seems. So often, we look back over the years...

Volunteers Dedicated to Honoring Fellow Veterans

John Joly says there is a reason he and fellow volunteer Bill Rempe are popular when it comes time for Tidewell Hospice to honor military veterans. “We’re frequently called to do pinnings because we never say no,...

Extraordinary Stories of Empath Health – Helen Stellrecht, Haydee Ayala, Diane Muzio, Trish Griesmeyer, Jacalyn Goehring

Welcome to Extraordinary Stories of Empath Health. In this space we highlight our fantastic colleagues and the extraordinary work they do to make Empath Health’s Full Life Care a daily reality for the patients and...

Embracing Impermanence – Monday Message

Change is hard. It disrupts comfortable routines and established ways of being in our world. Change prods us to explore uncharted territory where the path forward is uncertain and even scary. It’s natural to resist...