As a longtime volunteer with HopeHealth, Stella already had a deep appreciation for the power of community. In fact, she’d spent years co-facilitating a grief support group, and marveled at the healing she witnessed there. But when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, it didn’t occur to her that she might need her own Read More
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When 64-year-old Reno first heard about palliative care to help with his chronic illness, he resisted. Now, he calls it a “game changer.”
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HopeHealth’s Advanced Illness program provides palliative care to patients in the later stages of serious illness — right in the comfort of home.
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