Hospice Photo Gallery
They'll Remember The Good Times.
Enjoy a few quick snapshots of our Hospice Team in action. |
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Hospice volunteer, Mary Nicholson, shares her expertise in the field of information technology to help create a DVD for Camp Courage.
Hospice volunteers are trained to provide support to terminally ill clients and their families, but they often share other talents
with our agency as well.
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Breakfast at Meadows Aids Hospice
The kitchen crew poses during an all-you-can eat breakfast at the Meadows in Danville on Oct. 27. In the front row, from left are Lydia Summers, Diana Gavitt, Pete Gavitt, Penny Rishel and Dale Sellers. In the back row are Amy Knapp, Carol Thomas, Frank Rishel Jr., Frank Rishel Sr. and Linda Sellers. Proceeds went to the Ruth Credit Foundation to benefit Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall. |
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Prudence Lumley, left, and Darlene Turner are part of a group of volunteers who make greeting cards for Columbia Montour Home Hospice clients and their families. Hospice staff members like to help clients celebrate birthdays, anniversaries or other special occasions by sending beautiful cards
created by our wonderful volunteers. |
Ruth Credit Foundation Receives Donation
Laurie Hoffa, second from right, from the Kathryn La Bar Foundation, presents a check to the Ruth Credit Foundation to benefit Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall.
Pictured, from left, are Kathy Kelleher, Director of Social Work; Ruth Credit, a Columbia Montour Home Hospice patient; Hoffa and Susan Smith, director of hospice. In honor of Credit’s many years of community service, the foundation was formed in her name to benefit hospice patients who wish to spend their final weeks or months at Maria Hall, but do not have the financial means to do so. Fundraising events include a breakfast on Oct. 27, from 7-11 a.m. at the Meadows, as well as hoagie sales, a soup sale and a butterfly release.
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Hospice Benefits from Motorcycle Ride
Left to right, seated, Susan Smith, Director of Hospice, and Debra Hardin from the Turbotville VFW. Standing, Sandra Hare, Administrator of Camp Courage, and Mark Robbins from the Millville Sons of the American Legion (SAL). The VFW and SAL organized multiple fund raising events, including a Motorcycle Run, in memory of Tom Herman. The events were held July 11th and 12th and proceeds were donated to Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall and Camp Courage.
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Volunteer, Joyce Shortz, came to our agency shortly after her retirement because she loves people, believes in the mission of hospice, and wanted to use her office skills to help others.
Joyce is shown assembling admission packets for the nurses. What a time-saver for our staff!
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A sign outside the Columbia Mall advertises Columbia Montour Home Hospice’s annual “Tree of Lights”. The hospice program sold porcelain ornaments in honor or in memory of a loved one as a fund raiser. Families were invited to a tree-lighting ceremony inside the mall on November 25, 2007.
The program acknowledged how difficult holidays can be when we’ve lost loved ones.
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Megargell Tree Farms donated this Christmas tree, which stands under the marquee at Columbia Mall in Buckhorn throughout the holiday season. The tree helps advertise the
“Tree of Lights” sponsored by Columbia
Montour Home Hospice annually.
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Bloomsburg University nursing student, Jessica Naples, volunteered many hours to help coordinate the “Tree of Lights”. |
Sister Rosanne Knetz and Pat Kilcullen prepare to enjoy lunch and a magic show on December 8, 2007 at the Columbia Montour Home Health and Hospice Annual Volunteer Luncheon.
The theme for the luncheon was “Celebrate the Magic of Volunteering”.
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Magician, Don Schwartz, is shown performing at the volunteer luncheon on December 8, 2007.
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Can you find the dove in the center of this poinsettia tree? After magically appearing from a handful of torn newspaper pieces, the dove flew up into the poinsettia tree and cooed for the remainder of the volunteer luncheon.
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Camp Courage volunteer, Chris Meyer, places
his trust in magician, Don Schwartz, during the volunteer luncheon. The carrot was cut in two,
but Chris left the party with his arm intact.
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