Palliative care can provide relief to people with severe, but not necessarily life-ending, health conditions. But often patients — and their doctors — don\’t realize they can take advantage of a team-based treatment approach that may include social workers and community support. What is Palliative Care? Palliative care is similar to hospice care in that […]
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Daniel Roebuck, an actor best known for roles including Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in The Fugitive and its spinoff film U.S. Marshals, plus television roles in Lost, Matlock, and more, is coming to Bryan and Van Wert for showings of a 2017 film he wrote, directed, and starred in called, “Getting Grace.”
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Danny Mullins of Kenton depends on the home health care services he receives daily from CHP Home Care & Hospice. “I can’t do without them,” Mullins said of the home health aides who come to his home each day. “They’re the most important part of my life. Without them, I can’t do anything.” Aides from
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CHP Home Care & Hospice is partnering with local, family-owned pharmacies – Kaup Pharmacy in Fort Recovery, and Okuley\’s Pharmacy in Defiance – to provide pharmacy coverage for its hospice program.
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Robert Casper of Oakwood, Oh. and Carey Nance of Melrose, Oh. are going on a special trip this weekend to New York City, with a stop along the way at a state park in Pennsylvania. The trip is a wish granted to Casper by The Angel Foundation in Van Wert, a nonprofit organization that fulfills
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Local hospice services were in the spotlight at the 22nd CHP Hospice “Beacon of Hope” dinner/auction on Oct. 7 at the Junior Fair Building at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. The families of the late Peter Clemens and Jane Mason spoke about their experiences with the CHP Hospice program. Peter Clemens family Clemens’ daughter, Jill
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By Barbara Karnes, RN I was talking with someone yesterday about labor. It takes labor to get into this world and labor to leave it. The similarities and the differences when we leave “home” and when we go “home”—-all labor, all hard work. Labor to enter the world I was a nurse’s aide in the
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Back in February, Rob Bradford, 49, of Van Wert, slipped and fell on ice at his home. He laid outside on a cold winter night for nearly four hours before being found by his wife. Bradford was rushed to the hospital suffering from frostbite and hypothermia. His core body temperature had fallen dangerously low and
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“Why don’t you check out a grief support group,” is often offered as a suggestion to people after the loss of a loved one. And it’s not a bad suggestion. Grief and bereavement support groups offer many benefits to participants. Grief support groups come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Sometimes they are specific
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One of the benefits to choosing hospice care is that the service is designed to meet the needs of both the patient and their family. Hospice care also comes to wherever a patient calls home, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, apartments, and private residences. Both of these were welcomed resources for the family of
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