Hospice patient Betty Sallee holds Elvira, who works as a volunteer pet team member for Main Street Hospice with her owner Natalie Jennings. Volunteers are a key component to the services provided by ...

Every Tuesday, bright squares of fabric and the whir of sewing machines fill the fellowship hall at Mercer Baptist Church. Women are busy making quilts, sewing, tacking and hemming. The women are part ...

They have gathered on this sunny Friday morning in a light-filled room to help people who are dying. It is not somber work. The eight women and one man chat as they fill blue cloth bags with items ...

Bearded, leather-clad motorcyclists filled John Prince Park on Sunday, and raised more than $40,000 for kids. The Palm Beach Harley Owner’s Group hosted the event, a chili cook-off and raffle for a ...

At first glance, there was nothing extraordinary about the hands at the Houston Hospice blessing service. They were hands, calloused perhaps, with five fingers each. But these, those gathered at the ...

Hospice of Central Ohio honored its volunteers with a recognition and awards dinner April 23 at The Grove by the River. Kerry Hamilton, president and chief executive officer of Hospice of Central Ohio ...

Elaine Martin passes out Valentine's Day chocolates to hospice patients at Faith Hospice at Trillium Woods in Byron Center on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. (Anntaninna Biondo | MLive.com) It all started ...

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Doctors told Debra Perkins they can't stop her liver disease from progressing. They can only give her pain medication to keep her comfortable under hospice care. Perkins, 47, is divorced, her mother ...