AseraCare Hospice - Clarksville

06/08/2025

We are honored to be nominated for this year's Montgomery County Main Street Awards under the Medical Category in the Senior Home Services/Respite Care/In Home Care section 🎉🎉🎉🎉 If our team has brought comfort and peace to someone you love, please consider taking a moment to submit a vote for us. Thank you ❤️

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06/08/2025

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Morphine doesn’t kill people. Pain does.
But in hospice, fear often wins.

Families whisper:
“Won’t it speed things up?”
“Can’t we wait until the very end?”
“I don’t want them to sleep through the goodbye.”

We get it. You’re scared. You love them.
But withholding morphine doesn’t preserve life.
It prolongs suffering.

Here’s the truth:

• The standard starting dose of liquid morphine (Roxanol) is 5mg—roughly equivalent in effect to one tablet of Norco 5/325 (hydrocodone + acetaminophen).
• Sublingual morphine begins working in 15–30 minutes, peaks at ~1 hour, and lasts 2–4 hours.
• When appropriately dosed and titrated, morphine rarely causes respiratory depression—even in frail, terminal patients. In one study of 27,000, the risk was

05/07/2025

“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.” - Florence Nightingale.

05/07/2025

“Let me dedicate my life today to the care of those who come my way. Let me touch each one with a healing hand and the gentle art for which I stand. And then tonight when the day is done, let me rest in peace if I’ve helped just one.”

Happy Nurses Week to some of the hardest working nurses on the planet! Josh, Camryn, Robin, Sandra, Karen, Kayla, "little" Jen, Linda, Tabitha, Dominique, and "big" Jen. Your dedication to our patients is second to none! It's an honor to work with each of you ❤️

05/01/2025

Celebrating some of our delightful volunteers with lunch, dessert, conversation, and lots of laughs! We absolutely LOVE our volunteers 🩷🩷🩷

04/29/2025

Congratulations to AseraCare Hospice - McKenzie AseraCare Hospice - Jackson and AseraCare Hospice - Clarksville for being recognized as 4- and 5-Star Hospice Care Centers! The comfort, dignity and compassion offered by these teams are truly what define the hospice experience. Well done everyone!

04/24/2025

If you're interested in becoming a hospice volunteer, contact Jen Richmond at 931-551-4100 for more information.

Hospice volunteers are vital members of the care team, providing emotional support, companionship and comfort during some of life’s most challenging moments. If you have a passion for caring for others and want to make a meaningful impact, consider becoming an Amedisys hospice volunteer. Your time and presence can bring peace to those in need. https://hubs.li/Q03j5lBf0

04/24/2025

04/18/2025

This has been a week of celebrations! Tomorrow, these two lovebirds will be tying the knot, and we couldn't be happier! Here's wishing all the sweetest blessings in your marriage, Josh and Shauna 🩷 We love you both so much! 💚

04/17/2025

Today we recognized Susan Turner Thompson as our Stacy Knight Difference Maker for April. Susan has stepped up and covered all of our social work needs after Laura Estenson Rich switched to a PRN role late last month. Susan has been a lifesaver and Godsend to our patients and the team, and we cannot thank her enough for all she does! 🩷

04/10/2025

HUGE shout out to Mandy Lifsey for being recognized as the BEST of the BEST, leading the AseraCare Hospice - Jackson team to new heights in 2024! Mandy was recognized not only as a Circle of Excellence Chairmans Club award recipient, she led the pack in the #1 spot! Congratulations, Mandy! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

04/10/2025

Congratulations to our Director of Operations, Jen Richmond RN, who is one of the recipients of the 2024 Circle of Excellence Chairmans Club award. This award recognizes our highest operations leaders throughout the company. We are so proud of you and your dedication to the AseraCare Hospice - Clarksville team and community!

Pictured left to right: Deborah Lofton AVP of Business Development, Jen Richmond Director of Operations, Scott Nason AVP of Operations, and Ashley Sills AVP of Clinical