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Creative Ways you can Support Hospice
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Press Releases
Camp Ray of Hope given state award by Maine Hospice Council November 2008
Press Release: Camp Ray of Hope story on national PBS show Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, October 2008
(See actual video here)
Read this article published by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) October 2008:
Associations Between End-of-Life Discussions, Patient Mental Health, Medical Care Near Death, and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment
Hospice Garden to Help Healing, Central Maine Newspapers, May 16, 2008
Governor Baldacci proclaims April as Hospice Volunteer Month.
Learn more about how A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death and Hospice evolved by reading this story by author / editor Richard Russo.
Uplifting hospice book
by Richard Russo and five more Maine writers
to be launched at April 11 event honoring hospice volunteers
Sales of A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice
will benefit the Hospice Volunteers of the Waterville Area
READ MORE HERE
Read the article in the Morning Sentinel HERE
Waterville Hospice Volunteers open center for grieving children
This page is available online at:
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4535545.html
Facing up to end-of-life choicesMaine Hospice Council aims to educate public on topic that is difficult to discuss
This page is available online at:
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4345735.html
Hospice Volunteers launches $40,000 annual appeal
This page is available online at:
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/3753091.html
Created: Wednesday, November 15, 2006)
Hospice services create strong bond between two women (READ FULL ARTICLE HERE)
-- By John Hale
January 12, 2007
Letter to the editor: Waterville Sentinel and Kennebec Journal
Doug Harlow wrote an excellent article (Filling a Void: Hospice and VA, January 8) about the partnership between Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area (HVWA) and Togus VA Medical Center. This letter to the editor will provide additional information and clarification about the Maine Hospice VA Partnership and HVWA's role in that collaboration.
Some statistics of interest: 1,800 veterans die each day in the United States; 25% of all people who die in the United States are Veterans; 4% of those Veterans currently receive hospice care in VA Medical Centers.
The Maine Hospice VA Partnership formed in 2003 to ensure that access to excellent end-of-life care is available for all Maine Veterans and their families. The Partnership was the second initiated in the country (after Florida) and is an alliance between Togus VA Medical Center and community organizations (i.e. Hospice care providers, Maine Hospice Council and veteran service organizations).
Togus VA currently provides Hospice medical care to inpatient Veterans on their Nursing Home and Alzheimer's units and will soon open their own special Hospice Unit. Specially trained Hospice Volunteers were needed to complement their in-patient Hospice team of nurses, social workers and physicians. HVWA identified how to assist with that need and worked out an agreement with the Togus VA to train, assign and supervise Hospice Volunteers who visit Veterans within the Togus VA Medical Center. HVWA is the first agency to provide this service within Togus VA Medical Center.
Togus VA also works closely with community based Hospice care providers throughout the state to improve end-of-life care for Veterans who are living in their own homes or other facilities. As one of those community based agencies HVWA also serves Veterans, living within in our service area, in conjunction with Hospice medical care providers.
HVWA's role in the Partnership is unique in that we serve veterans in both their communities and within the Togus VA Medical Center and are the first to do so.
To learn more how you can become a Hospice Volunteer or how to help or provide support to the Maine Hospice VA Partnership visit Hospice Volunteers Waterville Area www.hvwa.org/help-hospice and the Maine VA Partnership www.mainehospicecouncil.org/hvp
Dale Marie Clark, Executive Director
Hospice Volunteers Waterville Area
207-873-3615 x 13
dmclark@hvwa.org
August 23, 2006
HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS EXPANDING TO NEWPORT
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area is expanding its service area to include the town of Newport and is seeking volunteers. A volunteer training will start Wednesday, September 20 from 5-8:00pm through November 15 at the Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area Community Center.
The training will prepare volunteers who are interested in offering 2-4 hours a week to individuals facing a life threatening illness and their families. Support may include companionship, reading, compassionate listening, or bereavement support to family members following a death.
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area exists to provide non-medical support to individuals and their families during the last phases of life and to loved ones throughout the grieving process. We are a volunteer based, nonprofit organization dependent on volunteers to accomplish our life-affirming mission. Our 25 mile service area, while based in Waterville, also includes: Albion, Belgrade, Belgrade Lakes, Benton, China, Clinton, Fairfield, Fairfield Center, Freedom, Hinckley, Mercer, Mt. Vernon, Newport, Oakland, Palermo, Rome, Shawmut, Sidney, Smithfield, South China, Thorndike, Unity, Vassalboro, Vienna, and Winslow
For more information and an application please contact:
Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area
304 Main Street P.O. Box 200
Waterville, ME 04903,
or call us at 873-3615, The application and class syllabus are also available online at www.HVWA.org/help-hospice. There is a $50 materials fee; scholarships are available.
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