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Community Care Hospice

1669 Rombach Ave.
Wilmington, OH 45177
Phone: 937.382.5400
Fax: 937.383.3898

Ohio's Community Mercy Hospice

1830 N. Limestone St.
Springfield, OH 45503
Phone: 937.390.9665

Ohio's Hospice at United Church Homes

Chapel Hill
12200 Strausser St. NW
Canal Fulton, OH 44614
Phone: 330.264.4899

Ohio's Hospice at United Church Homes

200 Timberline Dr. #1212
Marietta, OH 45750
Phone: 740.629.9990

Ohio's Hospice LifeCare

1900 Akron Rd.
Wooster, OH 44691
Phone: 330.264.4899

Ohio's Hospice Loving Care

779 London Ave.
Marysville, OH 43040
Phone: 937.644.1928

Ohio's Hospice of Butler & Warren Counties

5940 Long Meadow Dr.
Middletown, OH 45005
Phone: 513.422.0300

Ohio's Hospice of Dayton

324 Wilmington Ave.
Dayton, OH 45420
Phone: 937.256.4490
1.800.653.4490

Ohio's Hospice of Central Ohio

Newark

2269 Cherry Valley Rd.
Newark, OH 43055
Phone: 740.788.1400

Inpatient Care Center

1320 West Main St.
Newark, OH 43055
Phone: 740.344.0379

Ohio's Hospice of Central Ohio at
The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center

410 W 10th Ave - 7th Floor
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614.685.0001

Ohio's Hospice of Fayette County

222 N. Oakland Ave.
Washington Court House, OH 43160
Phone: 740.335.0149

Ohio's Hospice of Miami County

3230 N. Co. Rd. 25A
Troy, OH 45373
Phone: 937.335.5191

Ohio's Hospice of Morrow County

228 South St.
Mount Gilead, OH 43338
Phone: 419.946.9822

Ohio's Hospice

Dayton

7575 Paragon Rd.
Dayton, OH 45459
Phone: 937.256.4490
1.800.653.4490

Cincinnati

11013 Montgomery Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45249
1.800.653.4490

Recognizing a Volunteer and Veteran, Paul Butler - Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame

Ohio’s Hospice Volunteer Inducted into Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame

Paul Butler, an American Pride® Veteran Care by Ohio’s Hospice volunteer since 2015, has been nominated and inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame. 

Butler served for four years in the U.S. Navy, spending 21 months in Guam as a member of the flight crew, where he flew missions over the South China Sea. He was later assigned to the Naval Air Test Facility in Patuxent, Maryland. 

For the past five years, Butler has visited Veterans in the care of Community Care Hospice and Ohio’s Hospice of Fayette County through the American Pride program, which honors the service of Veteran patients and assures them of receiving the highest quality of care. In addition to celebrating and thanking Veterans for their service, American Pride assists patients in obtaining access to all the benefits to which Veterans are eligible, provides spiritual support, and addresses individual post-traumatic stress issues.  

“As an ordained minister of the Gospel, it is my calling to be there in a spiritual capacity should they desire counseling, pray or just to talk with,” Butler said. “I am a chaplain, but I am also a Veteran. To some, that makes a difference.” 

Butler also attends and conducts Veteran recognition ceremonies. During these ceremonies, Veterans are presented with a certificate, a pin, a lap quilt, and other items expressing gratitude for their military service.

Butler said the nurses and staff at Ohio’s Hospice are the greatest people he has had the privilege to associate. 

“That alone should be enough. But having the opportunity to visit with and hopefully bring a little joy and restore a little dignity at the end of life is the source of my greatest enjoyment. My favorite moment out of my five-plus years was the time I got to marry a patient and his caregiver – a great story and storybook wedding,” Butler said.

Outside of volunteering, Butler is a 50-year member of American Legion Post 49, is involved in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6710 for 30 years, is a Life Member of AMVETS and Disabled American Veterans, and is a past Commander of the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 49. 

“Veterans are part of a community that tends to be close-knit. Sometimes Veterans will only open up to another Veteran,” Butler said. “When Community Care Hospice presented the Veteran to Veteran Program to the American Legion Post where I belong, I immediately got on board because I saw the special need like they did.”

For more information about American Pride® Veteran Care by Ohio’s Hospice, visit https://www.ohioshospice.org/american-pride/.

Ohio’s Hospice is a partnership of mission-driven, not-for-profit hospices in Ohio committed to a shared vision of strengthening and preserving community-based hospices. Members of Ohio’s Hospice share the values of serving each patient in an atmosphere of hospitality, respect and caring; attending to the social, physical and spiritual needs of each person we are privileged to serve; preserving and enhancing patient dignity; celebrating the life of each individual we serve; and reducing unnecessary suffering in the communities we serve.

Affiliates of Ohio’s Hospice include: Community Care Hospice, Hospice of Central Ohio, Ohio’s Community Mercy Hospice, Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes, Ohio’s Hospice LifeCare, Ohio’s Hospice Loving Care, Ohio’s Hospice of Butler & Warren Counties, Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton, Ohio’s Hospice of Fayette County and Ohio’s Hospice of Miami County. 

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