Memorial White Rose Home Health & Hospice

Memorial White Rose Home Health and Hospice works closely with individuals living with Parkinson's. Check out the following fundraising opportunities this summer to give back to the Michael J Fox Foundation, and save your self from cooking a meal or two.

Join us NEXT Thursday June 3rd for a Fundraiser for the Hospice Promise Foundation! All you have to do is eat Delicious MOD Pizza! 20% of sales will go to the Hospice Promise Foundation. The Hospice Promise Foundation assists patients and families with essential, non-hospice related expenses they are unable to afford themselves such as rent and utility bills, emergency repairs, personal care items and food assistance. The foundation also provides funding for patients’ last wishes, burial assistance, and community projects like bereavement camps for children and educational outreach programs for end-of-life care.

100% given back to patients!!!

As we approach Memorial day its a great time to celebrate and reflect on our Veterans. They Served us now its our time to serve them

Happy birthday to Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Today we celebrate you, every female doctor who has paved the way since 1849, and the talented women physicians who are a part of the healthcare community today. Thank you for all that you bring to our industry! #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay

Our team can help those with end-stage heart failure feel at ease during their final days. Call us to learn more about how your end-stage heart failure patients can benefit from hospice care. #HeartMonth

New Year, New Resource? Are you treating someone who may be appropriate for hospice care in the comfort of their home or residence? Progression of disease... Unexplained, progressive weight loss Multiple co-morbidities including frequent infections Maximum to total assistance with ADLs Palliative Performance Scale Score < 50% Multiple ER visits/hospitalizations Difficulty with pain control Shortness of breath/oxygen dependence Life expectancy of < 6 months If this patient is someone you know, please give us a call. We can be your new resource.

Do you have a passion for helping others? Consider becoming a hospice volunteer. You can make a profound difference in the lives of patients and their loved ones. Please contact our office at 717-900-6871, ask for Michelle Poole our amazing volunteer Coordinator.

As a Clinician, there's no better gift you can give your patients and families this holiday season than the gift of hospice. Giving them the gift of hospice means giving your patients time and support this Season. We are here for those who deserve, and qualify for hospice all year round, but during the holidays the gift of time is extra special.

Memorial White Rose hospice is looking for a few more carolers, Help us spread some holiday cheer to all of residents and staff at local care communities. If you are interested please register by this Friday! Oh and grab your festive garments!

Flu vs. COVID-19 -- What's the difference? Today we're exploring the similarities and differences between these two illnesses regarding their signs and symptoms. #FightTheFlu #COVID19 Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

If you find yourself in a store, you will see that holiday season is in full affect. Christmas music is on the radio, the toy section at Walmart takes up half the store, and neighbors houses are lighting up the night. However these things don’t cover up that fact that the Holiday season of 2020 is not going to feel the same for most of us. With large gatherings being cancelled due to COVID 19, there are no work holiday parties, and no friends gathering. Deeper than that, is a...t the core of holiday tradition is family. Families across this nation, spent Thanksgiving alone, or with much smaller groups that usual. More than likely we will be waking up to Christmas morning knowing we will only see our household that day. As thankful/ecstatic as we will be to count down that last few seconds of 2020, and bring in what we can only hope will be a better year, there will only be a few glasses to clink. Many people will be living the next few months without their support systems checking on them, without loved ones coming from out of town to visit. With many of our social interactions not happening this year, there is one way that people living with terminal illness can have some support whether it be in their home or in a care community. Hospice services can provide frequent visits from members of our caring interdisciplinary team. Memorial White Rose provides help with daily tasks from our compassionate aids, medical monitoring and interventions from our experienced and dedicated nurses, support from our social worker, spiritual care from our Chaplin, or something as simple as companionship and conversation provided by one of our Volunteers. We know we can’t replace the precious time with family. But what we can do is bring comfort; through actual live human to human interaction, pain and symptom management, and improve quality of life.