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NEWS RELEASE

HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF CAPE COD
OFFERS NEW SUPPORT GROUPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
COPING WITH GRIEF AND LOSS

HYANNIS, MA. - SEPT. 5, 2008 - Kids Grieve Too!®, a unique program run by the Grief Support and Referral Center of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, announces two new support groups for children ages 8 to 13 who have experienced the loss of a parent, relative or friend.

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CAPE COD TIMES
AUGUST 28th, 2008
Sharing the Caring
Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod sponsors a patient blog service so caregivers can post updates for friends and relatives

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Hospice can smooth a bumpy road
By David W. Rehm

June 23, 2008 6:00 AM

Carol Mithers' May 30 op-ed, "For the dying, less can be more," contains many excellent points about the challenges of caring for sick elders in today's health care system. Unwittingly, it also reinforces some common misperceptions about hospice care that can make the road to needed help seem bumpy indeed.

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HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF CAPE COD EXPANDING MEDICAL CAPACITY OF HOSPICE HOUSE
Sandwich Facility to Become First Cape Cod Hospice Inpatient Unit 

HYANNIS – May 8, 2008 – Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod (H &PCCC) is pleased to announce it has received approval from the State of Massachusetts to upgrade the Mary McCarthy Hospice House in Sandwich to become a hospice Inpatient Unit (IPU), similar to an Acute Care/Intensive Care Unit.  Once the upgrade is completed and approved, this will be the only such license granted on Cape Cod and only the third in the state. This allows for the provision of a higher level of skilled care at the house, broadening its’ capacity to serve more acute patient needs.
 

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For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End
By JANE GROSS

HANOVER, N.H. — Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fast-paced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages less aggressive — and less costly — care at the end of life.

Grounded in research at the Dartmouth Medical School, slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly, and it educates patients and families how to push back against emergency room trips and hospitalizations designed for those with treatable illnesses, not the inevitable erosion of advanced age.

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From The Enterprise - Upper Cape Cod News and Information

Waquoit Couple Changing Way People Look At Hospice

By MICHAEL C. BAILEY
May 1, 2008 - 11:33:56 AM

     Say the word “hospice” to most people and they envision a place where people go to die.
     Say it to David W. Rehm of Waquoit, the new president and CEO of Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod (H&PCCC), and he will tell you otherwise. To him, it is a place where people go to live their remaining days to their fullest.
     “There’s something about the word ‘hospice’ that frightens people…people think hospice is for the very end, when there’s no hope,” he said, “but that simply is not true.”
   

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   BEING A HOSPICE VOLUNTEER:

LIFE LESSONS OVER CRIBBAGE AND ICE CREAM

 HYANNIS – Mar. 19, 2008 - You’ve likely heard of "Tuesdays with Morrie", the runaway best-seller by Mitch Albom about his relationship with Morrie Schwartz. You’re less likely to have heard about "Thursdays with Ben", as retired development officer and hospice volunteer Joe Lucier calls his latest volunteer experience. From June to December of last year, Lucier, age 76, spent every Thursday afternoon playing cribbage with 88-year-old Ben Arnold, in Arnold’s Sagamore Beach home. Arnold had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and Lucier was assigned as his hospice volunteer through Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod.

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New CEO happy to step aboard ‘flagship’ health agency

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