By: Jean Fleming, Executive Director This year, we celebrate 35 years of expert, compassionate end-of-life care to patients and families. This summer, we’re debuting a new fundraising campaign called Open Your Heart to Hospice. Rather…
The Burnett Calvert Hospice House has always been about compassion, long before it was even built. Almost twenty years ago, Calvert Hospice and supporters throughout the county recognized the need for a home where people with life-limiting…
By: Amanda Peterson Did you know that hospice utilization saves Medicare approximately $2,300 per patient who uses the service? (Taylor et al. 1474). You might think that savings is from the lack of care patients…
By: Amanda Peterson Consider for a moment what the ideal medical specialty might look like in practice. Doctors who visit you at home? Nurses on call 24/7 to answer questions or visit in the case…
2016 has been a busy year for Calvert Hospice! We appreciate each and every person who has supported us by entrusting loved ones to our care, reaching out to us with questions, attending our events…
Tomorrow marks the beginning of what we hope will become a family tradition for many of you in Calvert County. We are so pleased to be able to offer our first annual Festival of Wreaths…
The vast majority of Americans say what they want at the end of life is to die in their own homes, as comfortable and pain-free as possible. The hospice philosophy is about making sure that…
What makes a good death? This is a question that many people prefer not to think about in their day-to-day lives. However, for patients facing an uncertain future, it is an extremely relevant reality. The…
Death is a difficult topic for many people to talk about, and talking to children about death is terrifying at best. As adults, we try to soften the blow and talk around the subject in…
