As a volunteer in Ohio’s Hospice’s North Care Region, Beverly Wynkoop has an unwavering dedication for serving patients and families.  She’s played Yahtzee in a patient’s nursing room home and slung around dominoes with another. Another patient asked to be taken outdoors, so Beverly took her to a local park.  When one patient went home, Beverly still visited her.  Wherever, whenever. That’s how Beverly operates and after logging nearly 400 volunteer hours in…

Author, educator, and grief counselor Alan Wolfelt likens grief and mourning to a journey through nature's hospitable and inhospitable terrains. Using metaphors that are tangible and visual, he discusses intense, difficult emotions and uses parallels with nature to normalize distressing and frightening grief experiences. His discussion of mourning as a…

Liver and onions.  A ribeye.   Fried bologna.  These items may not sound like critical elements of hospice care. But they are among the myriad meals that help the culinary department fulfill Ohio’s Hospice’s mission of providing superior care and superior services to each patient and family.  Through the cafe in Ohio’s Hospice Dayton to the meal service for patients in our facilities across the…