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A Daughter’s Heart
“Like anybody with cancer, we didn’t think it would happen to us.” At the end of her father’s incredible five-year-long battle with malignant brain cancer, Tanya’s family called LightBridge Hospice.” At first, when the doctors mentioned hospice care, we were all in denial. We didn’t want to accept it was …
Hospice and Palliative Care Innovator Honored With 4th Annual Doris A. Howell, Md, Award
LightBridge Hospice & Palliative Care Founder Jill Mendlen, RN, Recognized for Extraordinary Impact Work
A nurse and longtime healthcare innovator whose entrepreneurial spirit has been fueled by a passion and purpose to improve care for people with serious illness was recently honored by the California State University Shiley Institute for …
Volunteers – The Special Ingredient
I sat across from a sweet woman I had come to know and genuinely care for. I sat with her husband Dan many times while he was on hospice care, talking about baseball and one of his main passions, grilling. We chatted for a few minutes, and then she handed …
Innovation Provides Better Care
Certified pet therapy dogs have been an integral part of the LightBridge integrative therapy program for many years. Based on the patient’s medical needs and preferences, a therapy dog can sometimes be the best medicine to bring a sense of calm and enjoyment to the patient.
A Wife’s Journey
“I felt as though I had been tossed a lifeline,” says Marilynn of her experience with LightBridge Hospice in the final weeks of her late husband Lou’s life. “The team that was put together for us could not have suited us better.” Lou and Marilynn approached hospice care at the advanced stages …
