Continuum Care Hospice

07/29/2025

“Once my clothes and now a bear, hug it tight and know I’m there.”

I love our Hospice Bears ❤️❤️❤️❤️

07/04/2025

06/25/2025

Not long ago, I had a conversation with the daughter of a hospice patient.

She asked, “Why didn’t my mom’s doctor tell us about hospice sooner?”

Her mother was doing Tele-health visits for over a year with her doctors because she was unable to leave her house due to edema from Congestive Heart Failure.

Her mother had been refusing to go to the ER for assessment/ treatment of her symptoms. Four times over the last year this was recommended. Four times she said no. She wanted to be at home. She did not want to return to the ER.

Her disease was advancing and advancing.

Her quality of life was declining and declining.

Finally, the physician referred her to palliative care after more than a year of living like this.

The patient quickly found out that she qualified for hospice care.

She came on to hospice and, within a week, her symptoms were better managed.

Her daughter also now had the support of the hospice nurse, physician, social worker, chaplain, and bath aids. She shared that she feels so much less alone in caring for her mom.

The daughter shared with me, her hospice social worker, “my mom has suffered needlessly for over a year because we didn’t know there was another option.”

We all need to be community educators, making sure everyone knows the options that are available at end of life. We need to keep communicating with medical providers who can begin to refer sooner.

Everyone deserves quality care at end of life.

Learn more about hospice at: hospicefoundation.org or nhpco.org.

06/06/2025

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

05/01/2025

Congratulations to Angela Winland, Continuum Care Hospice Employee of the Year!

03/19/2025

Take the time to get educated ❤️

Our podcast has officially hit more than 40,000 downloads! Check out the top 3 episodes from over the years.

🔊 Stories from the Field with Connie Dahlin
https://bit.ly/3QErbQM

🔊 Opioid Pain Management Across the Lifespan
https://bit.ly/3D02z1P

🔊 A Day in the Life of a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care LPN
https://bit.ly/3QCWw6f

12/04/2024

Continuum Care Hospice would like to thank American Legion Ohio Post #572 for joining us to honor the veterans at Broadview Multi-Care and thank you all for your service as well.

12/04/2024

12/04/2024

Continuum Care Hospice was glad to honor the veterans of Pleasantview Care Center. We thank you for your service!

12/04/2024

Continuum Care Hospice was glad to honor all the veterans at Parkside Villa on November 11th. We thank you for your service!

12/04/2024