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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...
Joey Jimenez – A Season for Caring

Joey Jimenez – A Season for Caring

When Joe Jimenez was dying after suffering a heart attack and stroke in 2016, his 21-year-old son, Joey, promised his father that he would remain at home to look after his mother and younger brother. It was a responsibility he took seriously. “To Joey, family has...
What’s Your WHY – Brent Annear

What’s Your WHY – Brent Annear

I am honored to serve on the Hospice Austin Operating Board of Directors for many reasons. First, Hospice Austin has Camp Brave Heart. I was drawn to volunteer at the bereavement camp for children who lost a loved one. Having lost my mom when I was a teenager, I can...
It’s All About the Service

It’s All About the Service

When Sister Nanette Gentile, who served on Hospice Austin’s Operating Board of Directors, told Herb Dyer about an opening on the board in 2011 and said he should consider serving, he turned her down. As Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for Seton Medical...
Tour Hospice Austin’s Christopher House

Tour Hospice Austin’s Christopher House

We want to give our community the opportunity to tour our beloved Christopher House, as well as learn more about the people inside these walls who bring comfort to our patients and families! Here are just a few of these heroes.   TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR   Keisha...
Partners in Caring

Partners in Caring

Over the past six years, Hospice Austin RN Shelly Robichaux has cared for close to 100 patients at Avalon Memory Care, an assisted living community in Cedar Park. Shelly is part of Hospice Austin’s Partners Team, who cares exclusively for patients in skilled nursing...
The Brave Heart Tree

The Brave Heart Tree

This was the story told at the opening ceremony of Camp Brave Heart this summer, Hospice Austin’s 3-night summer camp for children and teens who are grieving the death of a loved one. Once upon a time, there was a small sapling living in a beautiful grove near...