by admin | Apr 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Mar 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Marion Vise, who has volunteered with Hospice Austin for 40 years, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas & New Mexico Hospice Organization. Marion began volunteering for Hospice Austin in 1983, just two years after Hospice Austin served...
by admin | Feb 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Dec 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Dec 5, 2022 | Season for Caring, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
