Cottage - Compass Care

Home Care
Hospice
Transitions
Cottage in the Meadow
It’s About
How You
Volunteers
Bereavement
Home Care & Hospice
Summer 2013
New Leadership Gifts
An Amazing Opportunity
YOU can ensure someone with a terminal illness receives the helping
hands of a Jesuit Volunteer. We need to raise $15,000 by August 1.
James and Karen Almon
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest has offered a full time coordinator for
the Transitions program. JVs are highly qualified college graduates who
serve in a community for one year. Adding a JV to our team at this time
will provide service to our 85 Transition clients. The stipend cost to us is
$15,000 for the year. This is an amazing opportunity to have a quality
full-time person at such a low cost.
Norris and Alice Faringer
Caregivers that are stretched will be given a reprieve, isolated clients will
receive companionship, errands will be run, transportation provided, and
community resources tapped into (Meals on Wheels, Dial a Ride, COPES
caregiving etc.) through the Jesuit Volunteer. Won’t
you help by sending a donation today in the
enclosed envelope? The Jesuit Volunteer is on
her way to start helping your friends and
$5,550
neighbors in just four weeks!
Andrew and Doris Rosinbum
Transitions Program Fundraising
Progress - July 2013
Raised so far
Arlene Cuillier
Tim Melhorn and Janet Hanthorn
Corrine Neubert
Sandra Osborn
Prudential Almon Realty
Lester and Emma Roy
Martin and Judy Verbrugge
Yakama Legends Casino
Yakima Federal Savings and
Loan Association
$9,450
Remaining to be raised
The Healing SOUNDS of Water
The following is a letter from a grateful family member:
“I never thought our family would need Cottage in the Meadow. We all
wished that our loved one would pass in her sleep. That did not happen; and
after an event that proved to be irreparable, our family made the decision to
use hospice and transfer her from the hospital to Cottage.
The entire experience was beautiful for our loved one and family. The dignity,
compassion and comfort offered will always be remembered. As a family we
were able to stay and open the door to the sound of water and the smell of
spring flowers. We took turns at the bedside stroking her hair and massaging
her body to comfort her.
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We compared this experience to the deaths of two other grandparents. It was
not comparable; the other events did not allow for the peaceful next step in
life’s journey, tender loving moments of closure.
The staff and volunteers need to be commended for the work they do each
and every day.”
2701 Tieton Drive
Yakima, WA 98902
509-576-5794
memfound.org
Home Care
Hospice
Transitions
Cottage in the Meadow
Volunteers
Save the Date!
Saturday, September 21 | Fourth Street Theater
You will have an opportunity to celebrate the hospice movement in Yakima and to
joyously mark the one year anniversary of the opening of Cottage in the Meadow.
If you want to attend this fundraiser, call 575-8008 and leave your name to be
added to the invitation list.
Bereavement
Yakima natives Art
and Joanne Hall of the
Fairweather Foundation
will be our guests
of honor.
Can we talk?
A monthly speaker series on end of life issues
New Leadership Gifts
Preparing for the end of life is something that should be discussed, but people often find
difficult to bring up with friends or loved ones. Proper planning and conversations can make
the end of life journey easier for everyone. Join us on the third Tuesday each month for
presentations on different end of life topics including:
• Hospice
• Resources in the community
• Advanced Directives
• Palliative care/end of life options
• Grief and loss
3rd Tuesday of the month
11:00 a.m.— Noon / Light refreshments will be served
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Auditorium
2811 Tieton Drive, Yakima
For specific speaker presentations, go to yakimahospice.org/eol
Healthy Yakima
Memorial Foundation
2701 Tieton Drive
Yakima, WA 98902
509-576-5794
memfound.org