One Hospice Worker’s Push to Change the Way Vermonters Think About Dying aired on Vermont Public Radio in December. The story, by VPR reporter Pete Hirschfeld, features Jewelene Griffin, RN, our Hospice & Palliative Care Manager, at a free community Start the Conversation workshop at Hunger Mountain Co-Op in Montpelier.
The story focuses on Jewelene’s outreach during Hospice & Palliative Care Month, in November, to inform the central Vermont community about end-of-life care options, including hospice, and to help empower more people to get started in their advance-care planning.
“Conversations about death and dying can be scary. It can sometimes be uncomfortable,” Griffin says in the piece. But, she adds, they are a gift.
“If ourselves or one of our loved ones are in this place on their life journey … they don’t have to be there by themselves. Hospice is there to take their hand, and walk with them on their journey.” –Jewelene Griffin, RN
You may listen to the full story online here: https://bit.ly/2D3sUb8
To learn more about Hospice at CVHHH, visit www.cvhhh.org/hospice