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Hospice Foundation Holiday Shopping Spree
Looking for that perfect gift for someone on your list this holiday
season? Stop by The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care’s Mitchell
Campus in Cheektowaga on Friday, December 12, 2008 from 11 a.m. to
6 p.m. to pick up a gift for someone special. Over 10 local vendors will
be participating and a raffle basket auction will also take place. All proceeds
will benefit the Hospice Foundation of WNY. Call (716) 686-8090 for
more details.
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MEMORIAL Share the Bear GIFTS & Hospice Holiday Collection
In memory You of... can purchase this adorable bear available in two colors, for only
Margaret $10 this A. Abruzzino holiday season at the Walden Galleria Mall outside Lord &
Donor Taylor Name on the lower level, and The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care,
225 Como Park Boulevard in Cheektowaga. Donate your bear to an
Essential Care child or give as a gift to a loved one. In addition to our
bear, this year we will be selling Holiday Penguins for $10 each. Proceeds
will benefit Essential Care for Children, a program that provides medical,
psychosocial and spiritual care to children who are facing a life-threatening
illness and their families.
Snowflake Promotion
The Hospice Foundation will be selling snowflake ornaments at
the Walden Galleria Mall and at the Hospice Mitchell Campus in
Cheektowaga. The snowflake sales will directly benefit the Hospice
Foundation and will sell for $3 each. The Share the Bear & Snowflake
promotion at the Galleria Mall will start on Friday, November 28, 2008,
outside Lord & Taylor on the lower level and will continue until
Tuesday, December 23, 2008.
The 14th Annual ARTVOICE Mardi Gras, February 24, 2009
The ARTVOICE Mardi Gras turns Buffalo’s Allentown, Elmwood and
Chippewa district into its own French Quarter. The celebration includes
more than 45 clubs and bars with various bands playing at the different
venues. All proceeds will benefit the Hospice Foundation. The event
kicks off at 5:00 p.m. with a motorcade parade traveling down Elmwood, into
Allentown and onto Chippewa. For more information, contact the Hospice
Foundation at (716) 686-8090 or ARTVOICE at (716) 881-6604.
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costs at record rates, and other
costs like medications rising rapidly,
this cut in reimbursement has
significant impact on our program.
Hospice care is the most cost
effective approach to care and
actually saves Medicare and taxpayers’
money compared to
traditional care. Why would the
White House and CMS want to
cut one of the most cost effective
programs, and a program with
some of the highest quality outcomes
under Medicare?”
According to an independent
2007 Duke University study,
hospice saves Medicare an average
of $2,300 per patient, amounting
to a total savings of about $2
billion a year.
Considered to be the model
for high-quality care for terminally
ill patients, hospice focuses on
caring, not curing. And, in most
cases, is provided in the patient’s
home. Hospice professionals are
experts in providing pain and
symptom management to the
dying. Additional services include
emotional and spiritual support
to patients and their family caregivers
as well as caregiver training.
More than 1.3 million dying
Americans received care from the
nation’s hospice providers last year,
a number that continues to rise.
A Gallup poll found that nine
out of 10 Americans, if faced with
a terminal illness, would want to
remain in their homes and receive
the services that hospice provides.
In fact, more than 80 percent of
hospice care in the U.S. is provided
in the home. And patient satisfaction
with hospice approaches 100
percent as shown by data collected
from family caregivers.
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