Hospice Access for All

Hospice Access for All

When Matt Weiss had a heart attack, he didn’t even know it. He was in his 40s, in great shape, worked out every day, rarely even ate fast food. He didn’t go to the doctor, because he didn’t have insurance. A couple of months later, his feet – and shortly later his...
Night Shift

Night Shift

When the sun goes down, it gets scary for families of patients on hospice care, according to Hospice Austin On-Call Team Leader Aimee Alexander. Symptoms seem to get worse. People are tired and upset. The on-call staff working nights and weekends have to be prepared...
Welcome, Dana!

Welcome, Dana!

Dana lost her mother to leukemia a month before Dana graduated from nursing school. Shortly after embarking on her career, Dana read an article about a hospice forming in Central Texas, which prompted her to move to Austin. Hospice Austin was not yet admitting...
The MOST Time of Year

The MOST Time of Year

Hi Friends, Instead of this being the most wonderful time of the year, perhaps it’s really just the MOST time of the year, as a favorite podcaster of mine likes to say.  No month insists on cheerfulness more than this one.  It’s as if everything has been turned up a...