Blog Home Latest Blog Posts By Category Coronavirus Chronicles - Click here to view all posts The latest posts for Coronavirus Chronicles are listed below. Easing the way for patients and visitors When the concierge team at Sacred Heart Medical Center was assembled last summer, the team of three navigated a new role to help ease patients and visitors’ way as they entered the hospital. ...Message to caregivers from Sister Rosalie Locati Sister Rosalie Locati gives thanks to all of our caregivers and offers a message of love and hope.Providence Holy Cross' new tele-spiritual health program This photo was captured by the Associated Press and shared on the CBS evening news Instagram page. The picture captures the kind of work our chaplain’s have been providing at Providence Holy ...COVID - Click here to view all posts The latest posts for COVID are listed below. Testing, testing... A medical team from Providence Home & Community Care gear up and get ready to test caregivers and residents for COVID-19 at Providence Mount St. Vincent in Seattle, April 2020. The team used newer ...Spotlight on caring: older adults at home get a special delivery of springtime cheer from Providence ElderPlace Before the pandemic, Providence ElderPlace health and social centers served as the place for our participants, older adults, to receive medical, social, recreational and therapeutic services. When ...Face behind the mask Terry Hylton, RN, director of nursing at Providence Transitional Care in Anchorage, became one of the many caregivers to don “Face Behind the Mask” badges in April 2020. The badges help ...End of Life - Click here to view all posts The latest posts for End of Life are listed below. Doctor no parents want to see is one they need when their children are dying The doctor bends slightly at the waist, or he slouches, or he kneels, or he finds a chair to sink into, anything to get low. He wants to be physically beneath the devastated people he meets several ...Providence St. Joseph rolls out new end-of-life initiatives Dr. Ira Byock would make weeklong trips to his hometown in New Jersey to drive his dad to radiation therapy as he battled pancreatic cancer. The daily 2½-hour ritual would stir up memories as ...Physician-assisted suicide won't atone for medicine's 'original sin' Centuries from now, one of the things our era will be known for is the plague of dying badly. I’m proud of being a physician and a lifelong political progressive. I ardently believe in human ...Palliative Care - Click here to view all posts The latest posts for Palliative Care are listed below. Taking psychedelics seriously Background: Psychiatric research in the 1950s and 1960s showed potential for psychedelic medications to markedly alleviate depression and suffering associated with terminal illness. More recent ...Cambia health foundation announces 10 new sojourns scholars to advance palliative care Elite group of physicians and nurses demonstrate strong leadership potential and commitment to expanding palliative care The Cambia Health Foundation has announced the acceptance of 10 new physicians ...Whole Person Care - Click here to view all posts The latest posts for Whole Person Care are listed below. Four keys to living well - From the terminally ill Palliative care physician Ira Byock suggests how we might fill a loved one's final days with joy and forgiveness. My father, Seymour, was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in 1980, while ...Torrance Based Physician Takes Whole Person Care to New Heights While serving his internship in Fresno in the late 1970s, young physician in training Ira Byock had an interaction with a patient that would forever change his life. The exchange seems rather ...Whole Person Care - Population Health Care with Heart During her serious illness, Alesha made new friends, repaired family relationships, and got married. While hospitalized for a life-threatening medical condition, she and her loved ones reclaimed a ...