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The Demere Center for Living  is almost ready! Located off Chatham Parkway at 6000 Business Center Drive, the final touches are being added and landscaping and signage is coming soon. The result of a $3 million community capital campaign, the Center will house the community programming offered by our not-for-profit hospice:  The Steward Center for…

Students from the Savannah Arts Academy have donated a portion of  proceeds from their 2015  Junk 2 Funk fashion shows to Hospice Savannah.  Held in late January, the highly anticipated 7th annual event had an “Insectum” theme and featured insect-inspired designs made from recycled and reclaimed materials. Junk 2 Funk co-founders, teachers Trellis Payne, artistic…

As we prepare for our Summer Nights parties, we will highlight some of our hosts. This week we feature Mindy Yates, Director of Hospice House. What party will you have? My husband Bill and I are planning a cookout at our home (but we’ll eat inside!) Does your party have a special feature? Yes, we are…

95-year old Mrs. Amelia Robinson Jones was born on Daufuskie Island in 1919. After graduation from Georgia State she enlisted at Savannah’s Hunter Army Airfield in 1943 joining the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. As a participant in our We Honor Veterans initiative, Mrs. Jones learned of her qualification as a Tuskegee Airman during her Honor…

This is National Volunteer Week – a week when we pause to acknowledge and thank the countless men, women and teenagers who have volunteered for Hospice Savannah over the past 36 years. We were founded by pioneering volunteers who saw the need for hospice care in our community, and as we have expanded coverage into…

Please watch our new three-minute video as our employees share our values of Excellence, Accountability, Compassion, Teamwork and Stewardship. Our values provide the foundation for everything we do and I am extremely proud to be a part of an organization that embraces and carries out these core principles daily. Hospice Savannah is the only hospice…

As a Masters Social Worker, I am honored to thank and acknowledge the wonderful Social Workers we have at Hospice Savannah during National Social Work month. Hospice Savannah’s Social Workers are trained professionals who specialize in helping patients and their families work through the many changes that occur as their loved one’s health declines. Our…

As Dr Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal” remains at the number one position on the New York Times bestseller list, more and more of us are pondering medical decisions  and how we want to experience our end-of-life. Having end-of-life discussions is a good thing and we are here to help with your advance planning conversations; please…

In last week’s PBS Frontline show Being Mortal— based on the best-selling book of the same name, Dr. Atul Gawande discusses how his regrets over care he provided some patients, as well as the death of his own father, helped him to realize that the goal of medicine should not be a good death, but rather…

I was so delighted by the interest and conversations generated by Dr. Thomas Smith, Director of Palliative Care at Johns Hopkins, our guest speaker during our 7th annual lecture.  His message to both physicians and individuals diagnosed with a life-limiting illness is to have the conversation about end-of-life plans long before end-of-life circumstances occur! With…