Craig Dresang

StartFragment Jill Smyth had one last wish: to buy a lifetime of gifts for her children. She was 32 years old and a mother of three cheerful, spunky daughters; ages 5, 7 and 9. After weathering multiple, unsuccessful rounds of chemotherapy for Stage 4 ovarian cancer, she knew her time was limited. Feeling supported by her hospice team, Smyth put together a list of gifts she wanted to purchase for her daughters’ future birthdays, Christmas celebrations, graduations and wedding

StartFragment Fewer than 50 Sacramento area companies and organizations are named each year as outstanding places to work by the Sacramento Business Journal. This year, Yolo Hospice is among this prestigious group of employers. With a workforce of 80 people, Yolo Hospice was one of just two Yolo County organizations honored this past Thursday at the Best Places to Work awards luncheon at the Crown Plaza in Sacramento. The winning companies were selected in conjunction with Qu

StartFragment Life is great at 88 … when you’re Madalon O’Rawe Amenta, a resident of University Retirement Community in Davis. Her life — past, present and future — represents purpose, accomplishment and an eagerness to shape the world around her. Not everyone can at once stake a claim as poet, nurse, researcher, author, lobbyist, mother, academician, national leader, pioneering entrepreneur and Yolo Hospice board member. But Amenta, a lover of life, is all of these things an

Several of us at Yolo Hospice have been featured in an independent film on death and dying, created by Miko Nincic of Melibefilms. The film has been entered into a dozen international/independent film festivals including the Hollywood Dreamz Film Festival and the Action on Film Festival. Our interviews begin about 38 minutes in . . . Check it out at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/departing-death-art-dying-craig-dresang/