Blog: Stories and Insights

Read about the spiritual support counselors role on the hospice team and how they encourage meaningful life review, address spiritual concerns, and more.

Read about the mementos hospice spiritual support counselors present to hospice-patient family members as gifts of healing and remembrance.

Read about Camden NJ Artist William Butler, his faith, his connection to Samaritan’s Gala, and his special art exhibit at The Samaritan Center at Voorhees.

Read about how hospice massage therapy offers hands on relief to patients living with lymph-edema from cancer treatments.

Learn about Samaritan volunteer opportunities and vigil volunteering. Vigil volunteers offer a comforting presence to patients and their families.

Read Don and Meryl’s love story. Don had spent the last few years undergoing chemo. Now he just wanted to be home, comfortable, and with his love.

Learn about the many benefits of volunteering and the different ways you can get involved at South Jersey’s hospice organization.

Learn about four hospice myths and what the important facts are about this type of comfort care. Hospice provides comfort, support, and dignity to families.

Read about how David Bowie’s death opened the door for palliative discussions, and how these discussions bring comfort, support, and dignity to families.

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