Following a visit from Jen Stanley, Marketing Director of Hospice of the Panhandle, Morgan County Commissioners voted to proclaim November as National Hospice and Palliative Care Month in Morgan County.
“Everybody knows somebody who was under Hospice care,” said Commission President Joel Tuttle.
“[B]eyond providing physical treatment, Hospice of the Panhandle attends to the patient’s emotion, spiritual, and family needs, and provides family services such as respite care and bereavement counseling,” the proclamation says.
Stanley said Hospice of the Panhandle has 178 employees and 210 volunteers, all of whom help to serve patients and their families in Berkeley, Morgan, Jefferson and Hampshire counties.
The proclamation urged local families and individuals to consider end-of-life wishes and communicate those wishes to ones close to them.
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