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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 ...
Thrift Shoppes
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 ...
Hospice Care
Putting Patients First
Recently Hospice East Bay admitted a patient in her early 60s who had been diagnosed with glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is an aggressive type of cancer that ...
Hospice Care
Mutual Impact
Hospice work is unlike any other area in healthcare because we see most patients and families in their own home settings. We become guests in ...
Hospice Care
It’s the Little Things
Recently one of our spiritual care counselors visited a patient who lives in his own home and prides himself on his flower garden. On good ...
Hospice Care
When Patients “Graduate”
People are often surprised to learn that, for some patients, conditions actually improve while under hospice care. At Hospice East Bay, we say that these ...
Hospice Care
Teaching Each Other
At Hospice East Bay, we teach staff members to think of themselves first as educators. Most patients and families find themselves in new territory, faced ...
Hospice Care
Hospice Never Sleeps
As a Medicare-certified hospice, Hospice East Bay is required to have nurses available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer questions or ...
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Preparation Protected Our Patients & Staff
by Brianna Halstied, Media Coordinator With the nation dealing with a global pandemic, access to personal protective equipment (PPE) has become scarce in many parts ...
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- @Hospice East Bay
- Bruns House
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- Thrift Shoppes
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- Volunteer
- All
- @Hospice East Bay
- Bruns House
- Community
- Grief Support
- Hospice Care
- Palliative Care
- Thrift Shoppes
- Uncategorized
- Volunteer
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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 ...
Hospice Care
The Catalyst
In biology class, we learn how plants grow. A green plant uses sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugars that the plant uses ...
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Bereavement Volunteers are an Inspiration
Our Bereavement Department is committed to providing bereavement services, not only to the families of our patients but to our entire community. We offer traditional ...
Hospice Care
Hospice Moments – Bless the Beasts
Spiritual Care Counselor Bette Birnbaum is often moved to poetry by her experiences with families in hospice. Here is one of her recent poems: The ...
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The Best Gift I Could Give My Dad
My dad was in the hospital due to complications from his radiaton and COPD. I was told he was going to be fine, that this ...
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You Kept Us Afloat
To all the caring staff at Hospice East Bay THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS GIFT OF TIME! Your kindness and support kept us afloat many ...
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I Will Always Treasure That Last Week
Dear Hospice East Bay This letter is long overdue. I want to thank you for the care my family received during my mother’s illness. From the first ...
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Above and Beyond
Dear Hospice Nurses & Staff, Our family thanks you all so very much for your kindness, caring, efficiency & professionalism. Our mom has received the very best ...
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Beneficiary of Much Kindness
Dear Cast of Hospice Supporters, Thank you for the wonderful, compassionate care you gave my dad as he made his transition from our world. Your team’s ...
