What is a Qualified Charitable Distribution, and What Are the Benefits?
At 73, individuals are generally required to withdraw a set amount (called a Required Minimum Distribution, or RMD) from their retirement account holdings each year. If the RMD is not met, the amount not withdrawn could be taxed at rates up to 25%. If you find...
What is Hospice Care?
Many people have heard the term "hospice care” but are often unfamiliar with the benefits of hospice or unsure of when to begin receiving care. Tri-Cities Chaplaincy is here to answer all your hospice questions. What is Hospice Care? Hospice is a Medicare-certified...
Make the Most of Every Moment with an Early Referral
Hospice care helps those with an advanced illness make the most of every moment. Rather than lengthening life, it provides guidance, comfort, and support to help you live your best life with the time you have left. Coming to terms with the need for hospice care...
The 2000s – Expand and Contract
Chaplaincy’s mission has been to serve others with exemplary spiritual, emotional and physical care. Throughout this year, we have walked through Chaplaincy’s 50-year journey of growth, and we end with the events from the year 2000 to present. Looking Back on Where We...
Fall Newsletter 2021
This fall, we continue to celebrate 50 years of service to our community by looking back at the 1990s and sharing the story of how the community came together to serve us. 3,000 volunteers spent 27 months and a combined 24,101 hours of volunteer labor to build the...
1990s – Community Spirit
In 1996, Chaplain Tim Ledbetter offered a prayer for a new hospice house and counseling center which...
A Message to Caregivers
It is important to realize that although disease and its symptoms happen to the patient, illness affects the entire family. Caring for a terminally ill loved one can be rewarding, but it is physically and...
A Team Approach to Care
Hospice uses a highly qualified, specially trained team of professionals and volunteers working together to meet the physiological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of persons facing the end of life and...
Summer Newsletter 2021
This summer we continue to celebrate 50 years of service to our community by looking back at the 1980’s and sharing the story of the birth of the Hospice and Clinical Pastoral Education programs at Chaplaincy. We spotlight Lowell Jacobson, who was part of the “That...
1980s – The Hospice Movement
The story of the Chaplaincy was once summarized as follows, “…our Lord threw together the elemental gifts of a...