The Center for Education & Advance Care Planning (CEACP), thanks to the generous donations of the Vera Z. Dwyer Charitable Trust, has created a series of educational community events that engage adults in our service area in normalizing conversations about end-of-life. These family-friendly events, such as “Death by Chocolate,” combine information and fun conversations that...
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Partnerships in Caring – The Challenge of COVID-19 in Uganda
In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a study showing that prevention and treatment for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) had been severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) is working to ensure this is not the case in Uganda.
A Look Back – 15th Lube-a-Thon for Hospice Continues a Tradition of Giving
COVID-19 brought the Hospice Foundation’s in-person events to a screeching halt earlier this year. But a global pandemic couldn’t stop Tom’s Car Care Center (TCCC) from holding their 15th Lube-a-Thon for Hospice event on July 31! Deemed an essential business, Tom’s, along with their associated businesses The Waterworks Car Wash and The Coffee Spot Café,...
A Look Back – Improving the Quality of Living from the Outside In
With a mission “to improve the quality of living,” it only made sense for Center for Hospice Care to jump on an opportunity like the one that knocked on our door – literally, our back door. The City of Mishawaka and the Mishawaka Parks and Recreation Department crowdfunded in the winter of 2018 to build...
Mishawaka Police Department’s “No Shave November” Raises Money for Center for Hospice Care
For the second year in a row, officers from the Mishawaka Police Department, will put away their razors in November to raise funds to support Center for Hospice Care.
Center for Hospice Care Expands “We Honor Veterans” Program
Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is proud to be part of the “We Honor Veterans” program, a collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Its purpose is to raise awareness among veterans of the end-of-life services and benefits available to them. CHC is also proud to be...
Veterans Memorial Tribute Honors Local Group
On October 15, 2019 Center for Hospice Care and the Hospice Foundation held their annual Veterans Memorial Tribute at the Capt. Robert J. Hiler Jr. Veterans Memorial on the organizations’ Mishawaka Campus. Each year this event dedicates memorial items such as bricks and plaques given in memory or honor of veterans. This year the event...
Donor Profile: Tom’s Car Care
Crankcases of Generosity “Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.” It wasn’t theme song lyrics from the old Beverly Hillbillies TV show that inspired Dennis Zmyslo, one of the owners of Tom’s Car Care Center, to create a Lube-A-Thon fundraiser to support Center for Hospice Care. Dennis was attracted to the concept in 1998 when...
Looking Back at Camp Evergreen 2019
Due to the coronavirus outbreak this year’s Camp Evergreen weekend camp has been rescheduled for August 21-23. The family day camp is still scheduled to be held on September 19. We will do everything in our power to ensure that our campers, volunteers and staff are safe, so please keep in contact with the Center...
A Look Back at the 2019 Elkhart Gardens of Remembrance Event
Center for Hospice Care’s (CHC) annual Gardens of Remembrance and Renewal event took place on Tuesday, June 4th. The late afternoon sun shone down on the memorial bricks and benches as families gathered to remember their loved ones.