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St. Joseph Catholic Hospice & Palliative Services, serving those of all faiths, is a genuine voice ensuring that the end- of -life care provided is based solely on hospice’s founding Christian principles, as well as the Vatican’s position on care of the dying. Each day our team is blessed to meet people who welcome us into their lives as they journey along a path where medicine and medical technology no longer holds a cure, and therefore they seek comfort measures until a natural death occurs. It’s not giving up, nor demeaning life’s value, but instead making a graceful change of focus. Death is inevitable. As we each are born, we each shall too die. It is one part of the blessed journey called life. This sacred time will only come once in a lifetime and we feel privileged to meet these individuals Face to Faith.
When Dame Cicely Saunders, mother of the modern day hospice movement, began her work to construct the first modern hospice in England during the 1960s, it was truly an extension of her calling that began decades earlier when she met a patient who changed her life forever.
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