Cornerstone Hospice Wins Ingrid Thornquist Award for the Second Time in Three Years
TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla., Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Pet Peace of Mind (PPOM), a nationwide program that permits hospice sufferers to maintain their pets all through their end-of-life journey, as soon as once more named Cornerstone Hospice, an affiliate of Chapters Health System, because the recipient of the Ingrid Thronquist Award. The award signifies Cornerstone Hospice because the Pet Peace of Mind Partner of the Year for 2023.
PPOM introduced the award on the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Annual Leadership Conference, which was held in Little Rock on October 2. Cornerstone Hospice final earned the award in 2021.
The objective of PPOM is to complement the standard of life for severely in poor health sufferers and the pets they love. PPOM helps the human animal bond by coaching human healthcare organizations to build sturdy volunteer-driven packages to assist sufferers protect the bond with their pets.
“We had been the primary hospice in Florida to affix the Pet Peace of Mind Program and it has been a privilege to offer this program for our sufferers for the final 12 years,” mentioned Diane Anderson, supervisor of volunteer companies, Cornerstone Hospice. “Pets relieve a lot of the stress and nervousness that comes from coping with a continual sickness. That makes this program important and we’re excited for the influence it will probably have on extra sufferers because it turns into totally built-in all through the Chapters Health System of associates.”
“The longevity and steadfastness of their program is exceptional and demonstrates the significance they place on this system to assist sufferers with a essential service which supplies consolation and assist,” mentioned Dianne McGill, president of Pet Peace of Mind. “We congratulate Cornerstone Hospice for his or her excellent dedication to their Pet Peace of Mind program.”
About Chapters Health System
As a progressive chief and premier healthcare organization, Chapters Health System is devoted to delivering modern care all through continual sickness development and past. Since 1983 as a community-based, not-for-profit organization, Chapters Health has supplied decisions, training and steering by means of its managed associates. All choices are supplied to enhance the affected person/household expertise properly prematurely of end-of-life wants. In 2023, Chapters Health was named a Top Workplaces USA award-winner; in 2022, earned licensed standing for info safety from HITRUST and for the sixth consecutive 12 months was acknowledged as an amazing office within the Aging Services class by the unbiased analysts on the Great Place to Work® Institute. To study extra, go to http://www.chaptershealth.org, like us on Facebook or observe us on X and LinkedIn.
About Cornerstone Hospice
Cornerstone Hospice, an affiliate of Chapters Health System, is a community-based, not-for-profit organization offering care and assist packages to households impacted by life-limiting sicknesses. Nearly 7,000 individuals in Hardee, Highlands, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Polk and Sumter counties in Florida and Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties in Georgia profit from Cornerstone packages every year. Enhanced affected person and household care is made attainable by means of the beneficiant assist of people and teams. For extra info, go to http://www.cornerstonehospice.org.
About Pet Peace of Mind
Pet Peace of Mind is a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Salem, Oregon. Since 2009, we’ve got partnered with hospice, home well being care organizations, and hospitals to complement the standard of life and well-being of their sufferers by offering programming to assist take care of the pets they love. Our program supplies a turnkey strategy to assist healthcare companions set up a neighborhood program to coach volunteers to assist sufferers with their pet care wants. Our imaginative and prescient is to make sure each severely in poor health affected person has the assist they should keep the loving bond with their pets and that no pet is left homeless after the passing of their human companion.
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Austin Mudd, Chapters Health System, 813-310-4690, [email protected], chaptershealth.org
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