Blog: Stories and Insights

With an advanced directive in place, Carol and Mary Beth knew what their mother would want. Mary would live out her life in comfort and peace with the help of Samaritan.

Read the heartfelt submissions from our volunteers when we asked them their thoughts on volunteering for Samaritan.

Four Samaritan volunteers use their life-long love of sewing to benefit patients and families.

April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day. It was created to inspire and empower you to have conversations about your healthcare wishes.

Samaritan quickly adapted to ensure the continuation of essential services for people with advanced illness throughout the pandemic while honoring the fundamental essentials of palliative care to relieve suffering and honor the patients’ goals of care.

Palliative medicine is the medical specialty that honors a patient’s goals of care and supports treatment decisions. It helps relieve pain and symptoms caused by serious illness.

Thanks to Christine Parker-DeLeon’s moving essay submission to Miller Transportation’s Charitable Giving Program, Samaritan receives generous donation to benefit hospice patients and their families.

I encourage you to use the New Year to reflect on your healthcare wishes and the importance of advance care planning. Have conversations about it with your family – preferably now around the kitchen table, rather than later in the ICU during a crisis.

A look back at 2020 through stories of hope, inspiration, generosity, compassion, warmth, family, and exceptional care.

Read about how two sisters find hope and new traditions after losing both their parents in the same year.