Kids walk through grief with Stepping Stones
On a cold and gloomy winter day, David Deerfeeder, bereavement services manager at Yolo Hospice (YH), received a startling and tragic...
Ted talks . . . about listening
In describing what it means to be in the moment with a hospice patient, Ted Skiera, RN, recalls a story of a former patient named Mary. ...
Dignity and care for the poorest among us
Something unexpected, and quite unthinkable, happened to Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater, in 2014. The founder of the Health...
Palliative Care: Old fashioned medicine
“Palliative care is really old fashioned medicine. It’s the way Marcus Welby, M.D. practiced medicine on television in the 60s and 70s,”...
Who cares for the caregiver?
I recently had coffee with an old friend, I’ll call Tom. He has been caring for his mother in his family home since she was diagnosed...
Lessons from Mother Teresa
It is not every day that I get to introduce our community to a former senior advisor to the President of the United States or to someone...
Where love and Pride meet
"We believe in the power of love and goodness." It is a simple statement. And it happens to be Yolo Hospice's motto. Those nine words...
A Final Wish Finely Granted
Yolo Hospice team members always ask patients, “Is there anything else I can do for you?” before they leave a patient’s home. But...
Nontraditional Traditions
An unusual but important weekly ritual, rarely seen in other hospice organizations, takes place every Friday morning at Yolo Hospice....
