11/18/2025
At Oak Creek Hospice, we believe that educating our community and patients about the history and importance of hospice care is essential to delivering compassionate, informed support during life’s most vulnerable moments.💜
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine.