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How Are Hospice Services Paid For?
Hospice East Bay is a not-for-profit organization that provides care for patients and families facing serious illness. Many people wonder how these services are paid ...
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A New Era of Not-for-Profit Hospice Care
Hospice East Bay, the longest operating community-based nonprofit hospice serving East Bay patients and families, in collaboration with three other highly respected not-for-profit organizations, today ...
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Bruns House Lifts Family’s Burden
Paul Valle-Riestra entered the Bruns House on May 20, 2011 and embarked on his final destination in his nineteen-month battle with brain cancer. Born and ...
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Thrift Shoppes Partner with Local Groups
Hospice East Bay is fortunate to partner with six organizations that assist adults with disabilities to gain life and work skills. Every week participants from ...
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A Wedding at Bruns House
I first met Tonya on a Monday evening as I was preparing to go home for the day. Her mother had been admitted to Bruns ...
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Veteran Volunteers – Interview with Bob Ellis
On February 18, 2019, Hospice East Bay Volunteer Bob Ellis was interviewed by Stephen Burchik for the CCC-TV program “Veterans’ Voices.” This is an edited ...
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An Expression of Gratitude
In February of 2019, the wife of one of our patients addressed the staff at Hospice East Bay to express her gratitude for the care ...
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The Truth About Palliative Care
By Russ Granich, MD,Chief Medical Officer of Palliative Care of the East Bay Many people get upset if their doctor says she wants to refer ...
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Giving Tree Delivers Cheer at the Holidays
It was another successful year for Hospice East Bay’s Giving Tree project! At the holidays, the Giving Tree project amplifies the kindness that Hospice East ...
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Hospice Moments – Last Week
Spiritual Care Counselor Bette Birnbaum is often moved to poetry by her experiences with families in hospice. Here is one of her recent poems: Even ...
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Hospice Moments – Inspired by JW
Spiritual Care Counselor Bette Birnbaum is often moved to poetry by her experiences with families in hospice. Here is one of her recent poems: She ...
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Hospice Poet Wins National Contest
Our own Spiritual Care Counselor, Bette Birnbaum, submitted the following poem to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization creative arts contest and won! We ...
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Note from the CEO, Summer 2017
Hospice East Bay is celebrating our 40th year serving our communities. We are proud to have been a pioneer hospice program serving patients and families ...
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Music Therapy Supports Patients
Hospice East Bay incorporates music into many aspects of our work. Our Spiritual Care Counselors use music when caring for patients and families, our Music ...
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Whatever Will Be, Will Be
By Bess Chosak, Hospice East Bay Volunteer My first glimpse of my newly assigned patient was of a small bundle of a lady—a crown of ...
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How the Tree of Lights Started
This year, we would like to share our gratitude for Winifred Louise Varco Haagensen, known to friends as “Win.” In 1986, Hospice East Bay (then ...