FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 15, 2008

CONTACT:
Cindy Hickey, 330-489-1212
cindy.hickey@cantonmercy.org

Mercy Hospice Seeks Volunteers To Comfort The Terminally Ill
Mercy Medical Center Hospice is seeking “11th hour� volunteers to provide comfort to patients during life’s final hours

Canton, OH: Mercy Medical Center Hospice is seeking “11th hour” volunteers to provide comfort to patients during life’s final hours. Volunteer training will be held in October. If you’d like to be a part of this special team, which enables people to die peacefully and with dignity, please call Mercy Hospice at 330-649-4380, ext. 2114.

 

Mercy Hospice is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice focuses on the quality of life and draws upon the expertise of physicians, clergy, nurses, counselors, social workers, home health aides, trained volunteers and therapists. The philosophy of Hospice is reflected through the beliefs that dying is part of living and that dying persons and their families have physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs as well as a right to make decisions related to the meeting of those needs.

 

Mercy Medical Center, a nonprofit corporation of the Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals Health System, operates a 476-bed hospital serving Stark, Carroll, Wayne, Holmes and Tuscarawas Counties and parts of Southeastern Ohio. It has 550 physicians on its Medical Staff and employs 2,500 people. Mercy operates outpatient health centers in Carrollton, Jackson Township, Lake Township, Louisville and North Canton. A Catholic hospital, Mercy Medical Center upholds the mission and philosophy of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine and continues to be responsive to the needs of the community, including the provision of care to all, regardless of their ability to pay.