How To Use Hospice In A Sentence

It is thought officers will name 13 hospitals - including at least one hospice. The Sun
Many hospice patients attend for care or stay a while for assessment and treatment, and are then able to go home.
I think of the work that goes on in our homeless shelters, hospitals and hospices. The Sun
The hospice model of care is now espoused as a model of excellence and has led to a worldwide hospice movement aspiring to deliver high quality care to dying patients.
Hospice staff were said to be in tears when the news of her death was announced. Times, Sunday Times

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MCDONALD, George Bernard, 88, of Waldorf, a lithographer, died June 28 at Hospice House of St. Mary's. Southern Maryland Deaths
Today the female tradition is continued to some extent inasmuch as most hospital, hospice, and district nurses who do the job are women.
The patient's condition was untreatable and he sought hospice support.
The guild are running the quiz in aid of Laois Hospice and hopes for plenty of support.
The local hospice, in Masterton's Lincoln Road, is a non-residential unit, which offers family support, is a cancer education centre and a base for the nursing staff.
North West Hospice is incorporated as a limited company and is also registered as a charity.
Staff have organised two trolley loads of perishable food for the hospice and Santa will be picking up the presents.
A group of students are staging a fund-raising show, inspired by stories about local hospices in the Journal.
Stephen Benson accepted the cheque on behalf of the hospice.
The total figure raised by these gallant ladies on their Sit Out Night in aid of Newry Hospice in December amounted to £2,700 and 1,700 euro.
Having hospice care in the prison excludes all these problems, so it's cost effective.
He is a personable young man and has begun voluntary work in a hospice in the hope that the skills gained will help in his application. Times, Sunday Times
The name St. Bernard comes from the monastery and hospice in Switzerland with which these dogs are historically associated. The Daily Puppy | Pictures of Puppies
Supermarket chain Tesco has joined forces with Pendleside Hospice in a bid to smash this year's fundraising targets.
The Hospice 2000 Appeal aims to raise £2million to redevelop the hospice and extend its services to care for more people.
Veteran runner Marie will be running alongside a number of staff from Bury Hospice, for whom she is raising money.
The name St. Bernard comes from the monastery and hospice in Switzerland with which these dogs are historically associated. The Daily Puppy | Pictures of Puppies
A Yorkshire hospice for sick and dying children is poised to win a massive lottery boost, it was reported today.
All proceeds of the event went to Newry Hospice.
Friends and supporters of the hospice will be at its annual service of thanksgiving on Sunday.
Each donor received a copy of the page and memorial card, and was invited to the short remembrance service at the Dumers Lane hospice.
The hospice aims to ease the sufferings of the dying.
Some caregivers reported the amount of care that was provided by hospice on a weekly basis.
Terminally ill patients in the United States are increasingly choosing hospices for their end-of-life care.
Hospice services are provided for patients with a predicted life expectancy of 6 months or less who have elected palliative rather than curative care.
Her mother died at the hospice in March after a brave year-long battle against cancer.
They remain at the heart of the hospice movement. Growing Through Loss and Grief
In-home hospice would provide a trained nurse for several days or a week to give a stressed-out caregiver a break. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
This is the point at which most people would go into hospital or hospice. Times, Sunday Times
Before he went to spend his last two weeks in a hospice, he was bustling around the house. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't sound so overwhelming or scary," said Christian Sinclair, associate medical director at Kansas City Hospice and editor of the Pallimed blog, who sees the term catching on. NYT > Home Page
What hits you about them is that it could happen to anyone, and when you visit a hospice you really understand why they need our help. The Sun
Give us a break Sarah, Nobody wants to kill off Grandma but services like Hospice care for the dying is a very important component of health care and helps families cope with the end of life issues that come up when Grandma is dying. Palin warns of 'disturbing' health care rationing
The following year, that successful appeal led to the formation of a committee to build and fund a hospice.
The scheme is also fully supported by the Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, with whom the hospice has a contract for service provision.
Most children cared for by hospices have life-shortening conditions like cystic fibrosis and severe cerebral palsy or life-threatening conditions such as cancer.
The hospices have been donated a brand-new car to give away as the star prize of the raffle but they need more help selling the raffle tickets.
Remember, the hospice only has use for good, clean items, not dirty rabbit hutches and bird cages or other items which should go to the council tip.
I called hospice, and they told me to administer more morphine to calm his breathing and that they would send a nurse by to check on him. Carol Jones: We Were Counting Breaths Till the Last One
I think of the work that goes on in our homeless shelters, hospitals and hospices. The Sun
Nova Scotia has no hospices, so patients with terminal cancer must die in hospital or at home.
Before he went to spend his last two weeks in a hospice, he was bustling around the house. Times, Sunday Times
Specialist hospices for people with advanced dementia, focusing on terminal care, have existed in the United States for some time.
The hospice is the only one of its kind in the city and provides medical treatment for terminal cancer patients.
The only exceptions would be residential premises like care homes, hospices, prisons and private members' clubs, where members would hold an annual ballot on allowing smoking.
All her previous jobs have been in catering and she was once head chef at St Gemma's Hospice in Moortown, Leeds.
Another man takes his dog into hospices and care homes so that the residents can stroke him. Times, Sunday Times
Joan is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. Pat Mitchell: Joan Halifax, a Fearless Source of Hard-Earned Wisdom
The French Constituent Assembly set up a commission on mendicancy and in 1796 legislation provided for hospices for the sick and required every commune to organize a bureau de bienfaisance for outdoor relief.
The volunteer gardeners at St Leonard's Hospice are calling on fellow horticulturalists to help them make their plant sale a blooming success for our Hospice 2000 Appeal.
Accordingly, the concepts of hospice and palliative care, pioneered in England by Saunders, and of thanatology, pioneered in the U.S. by Kubler-Ross, emerged, signaling the birth of a new movement.
Complementary treatments have many advocates in palliative medicine, and many hospice services offer, or are under pressure to offer, such treatments.
Congratulations to those gallant ladies who participated in the South Armagh Women's Group Sit-Out last Friday night proceeds in Aid of Newry Hospice.
When Dame Cicely Saunders, who founded the Saint Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967, first aired those ideas, the medical world was hostile.
At the moment, we perceive that there's an unmet demand because either families don't know about us or they have reticence about approaching us because of this term hospice," Mr Hurcombe said. WalesOnline - Home
Why was she allowed to be moved into a hospice for so many years when hospices are supposed to be for people who will die naturally inside six months or so?
However, she was admitted, given five more units of blood, and kept in to await a vacancy in the hospice.
The "pro-life" argument regarding improvement in pain control through drugs, hospices etc. only covers those dying in pain.
The newsletter, released last week, showed this was the total amount of donations given to the hospice in lieu of gifts to the couple.
Back in 1386, a swineherd by the name of John the Foundling was so upset by the number of travellers who froze to death on the pass between Stuben and St Anton that he built a hospice to shelter them.
Dorothy Provine, 75, an actress who played the title outlaw in the film "The Bonnie Parker Story" and was the high-kicking flapper in the 1960s TV series "The Roaring 20's," died April 25 at a hospice near her home in Bremerton, Wash. Actress Dorothy Provine dies; played Bonnie Parker in film, Pinky Pinkham on TV
The word hospice, which is still normally associated with Ty Hafan, is misleading, as Mr Hurcombe points out. WalesOnline - Home
He ended up alone in a single room in a hospice. Times, Sunday Times
Near the patriarchate is the large Orthodox monastery (St. Constantine) with a printing press and hospice for pilgrims. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
FAT friends have been given a tour around a hospice to see how cash raised from a sponsored slim will be used.
Prison cells, hotel rooms, psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes and hospices are exempt from the ban.
The report also talks of the benefits of care homes and hospices having gardens that are open to residents. The Sun
The communal kitchen will cater for patients in the hospice.
Funds from the event will support the work of the hospice.
DETROIT mdash; Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks, Calif. home for complications ... Sparky Anderson, Ex-Tigers Manager, Placed Into Hospice
Help us raise lots of money for our three hospices or I'll slap the bake off ye!
It is now known that at least one is a hospice. Times, Sunday Times
One is the valley to which we are now bending our steps, which nestles not far from the foot of the great mountain men call the St. Bernard; the other is at the hospice upon the Great St. Bernard itself, where is a colony of devout and kindly monks, who give their succour to travellers of every nationality and creed, and where a safe shelter may always be found. Tom Tufton's Travels
He couldn't see the City where it loomed just beyond the beachhead; he didn't know how near were the City's hospices and hotels. THE BROKEN GOD
Robert J. Corber, 84, a senior partner at the Washington law firm of Steptoe and Johnson who was head of the Interstate Commerce Commission from 1974 to 1976, died Jan. 25 at a hospice in Williamsburg. Robert J. Corber, lawyer
A sponsored slim in is taking place over Lent in aid of the Laois Hospice Foundation.
The IHF is a voluntary body supporting the country's hospices and other services caring for and working with people who are terminally ill.
They have opened a hospice for poorly cats and dogs and I decided I wanted to help them out.
The pastorate has been marked by evangelistic work in local schools, homes for the elderly, the local day hospice, and outreach through literature distribution and home visiting around the town.
Fundraising for the hospice was a great success with the day and nightwalkers combining forces for the sponsored event.
The great Prince Godfrey de Bouillon fully approved of the steps taken by these gentlemen, and for his own part contributed to the upkeep of the hospice the seigneurie of Montbirre, with all its dependencies, which formed a part of his domain in Brabant. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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This has been the cornerstone of the hospice movement since it began and an encouraging finding to build on. Times, Sunday Times
They took her to a hospice as a pauper and a vagrant and she died there. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Over £900 was raised for the Southern Area Hospice Services from donations placed instead of presents for Jimmy.
Well done to both girls who finished the run in a good time and managed to raise a tidy sum of money in sponsorship for Newry and Mourne Hospice.
Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Application des Méthodes nouvelles au diagnostique du niveau intellectuel chez des enfants normaux et anormaux d'hospice et d'école primaire"; in _Année psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 245-336. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
Sunset Daze," a new reality show beginning Wednesday on the WE tv network, isn't exactly cinéma vérité; in some ways it's as hokily staged as "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," only set in a retirement community - "The Real Hospice Wives of Arizona. NYT > Home Page
She developed the rapid onset of liver failure with portal hypertension and died in a hospice.
This year the family was allocated ten days of care at the hospice.
The hospice's very flexible approach to providing care and support to the entire family is working well.
Home continues to be the preferred place to die, followed by hospices and care homes. Times, Sunday Times
For example, monitoring of particular subgroups of general practitioners, such as locums, assistants, and those caring for people in hospices, may be difficult if not impossible.
Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific ￡300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice.
Hospice care is one of the UK's outstanding success stories. Times, Sunday Times
The Whitecross Hospice Fundraising Committee is presenting a cheque to Newry Hospice.
Hospitals were ranked worse than care homes and hospices for treating dying patients with dignity. The Sun
The premise of hospice care is very close to the bone for me.
In the twelfth century there was a sudden multiplication of women's hospices, houses of reclusion, and beguinages of all sizes.
He was persuaded to raise money for the hospice after a family member was cared for in a hospice.
Members of the town's hospice movement say trade has fallen dramatically at their charity shop.
Earlier this year, her dog, Amber, was approved as a Pets as Therapy dog - one of 12,000 across the country taken into hospitals, hospices and care homes to cheer up patients.
Bolton Hospice Lottery is officially launched by Bolton songbird Hannah Morris, and a very special grandmother.
Even so, she said(Sentence dictionary), many of the people who come to the hospice ask about assisted suicide.
In-home hospice would provide a trained nurse for several days or a week to give a stressed-out caregiver a break. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
All the money raised will go to Zoe's Place, a proposed hospice for terminally ill children.
Mr Lynch, who died peacefully at the Marie Curie hospice in Bradford, leaves his two daughters and sons-in-law and five grand-children.
At a hospice in 2015 he talked about the presidential hopeful. Times, Sunday Times
I think of the work that goes on in our homeless shelters, hospitals and hospices. The Sun
Bosses at Sue Ryder Care, which has two hospices and two neurological care centres in Yorkshire, said this means the Treasury is taking money that should be spent on caring for the dying and seriously ill.
Added to this, the week after our interview he was opening a fête at his local hospice in Dorset. Times, Sunday Times
DETROIT — Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks, Calif. home for complications resulting from dementia. Sparky Anderson, Ex-Tigers Manager, Placed Into Hospice
What keeps me going is a belief in the hospice movement, my pig-headed stubbornness and more recently, the advert for the Cancer Research Fund, which shows three girls playing in a meadow.
A youngster whose father died of cancer is talking part in a walk in Bingley to raise funds for the hospice which cared for him.
I came across her in the sitting room avidly reading a magazine while knitting a scarf for the hospice shop.
I've told you before about Florence Steen of South Dakota, who was 88 years old, and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside.
Now approaching her 80th birthday, she shows no sign of easing up - and it's Peggy who can be relied upon to open the hospice's charity shop each morning.
The Hospice board statement said that staff had expressed their wholehearted support for the board's decision.
The focus groups comprised consultants and specialist registrars in medicine for elderly people, nurses, general practitioners, and hospice staff.
You know the sort of thing; local school fête raises money for hospice, beach wins blue flag award for third year running.
Patients are assured they will not die alone, and family and hospice staff wait with those who are near death. Christianity Today
Women's refuges, local hospices and day centres are also members of the Scrapstore.
His 350-plant indoor grow, which produces about two ounces per plant, supplies a 12-member patient collective, two dispensaries, and an AIDS hospice.
We can say the word "hospice" and ask for a referral. NYT > Home Page
Home care assistant Audrey Sands is using pedal power to help coin in cash for Manorlands hospice.
I give to local hospice and cancer organisations. The Sun
Depending on the hospice's resources, there may be extra perks, such as art, touch and music therapy.
Performances are regularly held in hospices, care homes and long-stay hospital wards throughout the East End.
A fancy dress event will be held on St. Stephen's Day with people visiting all pubs in the locality in varying stages of dress and undress to help raise funds for North West Hospice.
Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years.
This guidance clearly sets out the best practice for all those involved in palliative care, whether that be at home, in a hospice or in a hospital. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Norris made it clear there was to be no charge for viewing from a distance - but any donations would go to St Helena Hospice.
Companionship can include a spouse, member, hired caregiver, hospice volunteer, Good Samaritan, or pet.
Her mother died at the hospice in March after a brave year-long battle against cancer.
And its only when you talk to people who have a relative who has used the hospice service that you get an idea of the dedicated and committed work that they do.
When I was a hospice nurse, I worked w this compounder & we once put over ten meds in this gel. What To Wear For A Crisis
Enterprising supporters, including York College students and two patients at the hospice, have made and sold their own handiwork.
The firm, which has a network of branches in the area served by the hospice, is paying for a crucial element of the appeal.
It might have been easier for him to have gone into hospital or the hospice; and these options were offered to us. Times, Sunday Times
She has already raised £6,500 for the home by composing an appeal letter seeking donations for the hospice at Oxenhope.
The Buy a Brick Campaign was launched to coincide with the start of building work on the hospice site, and was a simple and practical way for supporters to contribute to the appeal.
Butler, ii, 25), we find that a xenodocheion, or hospice, was wont to be erected for their visitors in these remote regions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
He requires round-the-clock care and the hospice helps me out when I need it. The Sun
The agency - who waived their fee - worked with the hospice in defining the key message they needed to deliver.
What I would like is if one of the local hospitals, hospices or care homes could take the whole box for use by the patients, staff and anyone else who would appreciate them.
I want to raise money for the local hospice. Times, Sunday Times
Problems with staff pay, violence, bed-blocking, hospice care and the threat of closures were discussed during the tour, which included Nightingale House Hospice, Wrexham, Deeside and Prestatyn community hospitals and Llandudno general hospital. Archive 2007-09-01
This is the point at which most people would go into hospital or hospice. Times, Sunday Times
What keeps me going is a belief in the hospice movement, my pig-headed stubbornness and more recently, the advert for the Cancer Research Fund, which shows three girls playing in a meadow.
She also gives a weekly sermon in the hospice chapel.
There are also 16 day-places at the hospice, enabling sufferers to chat with people who understand the trauma they are going through.
He had taken it home from the hospice and kept it on the mantelpiece in their bedroom. Times, Sunday Times
Hospice and palliative care is the specialist field where there are people who will do this and such care is given free of charge. Times, Sunday Times
A vacancy has arisen for a part-time assistant in Swinford Hospice shop.
He was in a Hospice in Perth at the end and was nursed with great care and tenderness until he died but he was only 58 and should have lived much longer had he not been exposed to asbestos back beginning in about 1959.
It is likely that large dogs were first introduced into this region as watchdogs and companions for the monks during the long winter months when the hospice was fairly isolated.
Families complain that a lack of support, local hospice beds or pain management services leaves them no alternative. Times, Sunday Times
As I write, the sunlight is streaming through my window at the Ayrshire Hospice.
Her contribution to the success of the hospice movement is incalculable. Times, Sunday Times
Before he went to spend his last two weeks in a hospice, he was bustling around the house. Times, Sunday Times
The Hospice charity shops dotted around the borough are manned, for the most part, by unpaid volunteers.
The patient, referred by hospice for psychological care, was treated with hypnotically facilitated psychotherapy.
I have had requests for morphine from hospice staff when the patient seems quite comfortable and in no distress.
Receiving hospice care seems to be a "leveler" for blacks, says Lauren Harris-Kojetin, one of the study's authors. Study: Blacks less likely to have living wills, medical directives
East Lancashire Hospice is appealing for daredevils to take part in a sponsored parachute jump in aid of the charity.
Another point that the "Pro-life" lobby try to get across is that they believe no one dies painfully now, because of hospices and modern drugs, so euthanasia is not needed.
Ann's husband Eric Martin, who presented the cheque to hospice fund-raiser Gillian Richardson, was told that the money will be used to buy much-needed oxygen concentrators.
Four years on, Steve's enthusiasm and dedication to his cause remains undented and the charity is currently raising funds to build a dedicated hospice for children with HIV.
He sold lemonade and loom band bracelets to fellow pupils, raising 80 for the hospice that looked after his grandfather. The Sun
The hospice has provided care to patients with advanced and progressive life threatening diseases along with support for their relatives and carers since the early 1980s.
It's party time all over again for St Leonard's Hospice, with the news that York's big weekend of revels has raised a staggering £10,000 for our Hospice 2000 Appeal.
The adorable Hungarian vizsla has proved a huge hit at The Rowans Hospice in Purbrook, near Waterlooville, where she visits every Wednesday.
It was his last wish that a hospice for other sick and terminally ill children should be built in the South Yorkshire area.
There are countless charities that want patrons, there are hospices, hospitals and schools that need to be visited, events that have to be opened and projects that need to be endorsed.
A grandad who lost his fight against cancer asked for his Skoda to be sold to raise money for the hospice which cared for him.
The auction consists of the sale of barrels of this year's vintage from the hospice's many cuvées.
I would advise anyone with bone cancer to find a palliative care specialist and the rest of us to give generously to local hospices. Times, Sunday Times
All dedications must be received by Friday and a special carol service will be held at the hospice on December 12 at 4.30 pm when the lights will be turned on.
VoVo the Portuguese name my family affectionately called my great-grandmother was bedridden and receiving hospice care in the comfort of my grandparents’ home. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith
Clinicians need to balance new mainstream integration with sensitive assimilation of the hospice model to ensure seamless transition.
Money goes to a local hospice. Times, Sunday Times
Although she did not found the hospice movement, her work spurred its development.
Hospice staff were also reported to be most respectful of the dying. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the carvings will find a home in the grounds of country estates while another is destined for a hospice.
Their plight has turned the spotlight on the lack of funding of the hospice movement. The Sun
A doctor whose close friend died of breast cancer is to pound the streets of New York to raise funds for hospices which care for the terminally ill.
Firstly a hat I knit for mr mog, quick and fairly easy and on 4 NEEDLES no less: So why can I do hats but not socks? answers on a virtual postcard please secondly this is the first shawl for the Hospice lunar year. Finished objects(well almost on one)
John Carey spent his last weeks at the hospice receiving unparalleled care that gave him a dignity in death that his widow, Carol, has never forgotten.
In a hospice setting it is not unusual to be confronted by anguished relatives witnessing the physical deterioration of their loved ones.
Now that the ‘natural death’ amendments have been passed by the legislature, I hope Taiwan will soon have more hospice wards to take care of terminal patients.
After many years of this Sisyphean activity, I was accostedlast month (in my post-Christmas clear out mode) in the Princess Alice Hospice shop in Kingston, when dropping off a bag of (what I thought to be) a rather saleable suit, some books, a pair of shoes and some outgrown children's cardigans. Princess Alice Hospice
The emergence of terminal and hospice care, and subsequent endorsement of the specialty of palliative medicine, is a clear expression of this.
Molly and Billy were very appreciative of gifts bestowed on them and were delighted that the Hospice was a worthy beneficiary as a result of their own enjoyment.
Some residential hospices designed specifically for hospice care also exist.
South Essex MPs have united in their calls for better Government funding for hospices which provide essential care for terminally ill patients.

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