Amedisys Hospice of Williamsburg/Peninsula

11/11/2021

11/11/2021

Happy Veterans Day to those past and present. Thank you for your service and sacrifice!

11/03/2021

Please help us congratulate Susan Milne for reaching this volunteer mile stone. If you want to join an amazing volunteer team please contact us.

11/02/2021

November is our favorite month at Amedisys! All month, we’ll be sharing why home health, hospice, personal care, palliative care and higher acuity care are the future of healthcare.

10/26/2021

People and Patients first 💚

09/11/2021

Today, we take a moment to reflect and remember.

09/08/2021

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09/08/2021

✨Expected Death ~ When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Take a deep breath and be present to the magnitude of the moment.

There's a grace to being at the bedside of someone you love as they make their transition out of this world. At the moment they take their last breath, there's an incredible sacredness in the space. The veil between the worlds opens.

We're so unprepared and untrained in how to deal with death that sometimes a kind of panic response kicks in. "They're dead!"

We knew they were going to die, so their being dead is not a surprise. It's not a problem to be solved. It's very sad, but it's not cause to panic.

If anything, their death is cause to take a deep breath, to stop, and be really present to what's happening. If you're at home, maybe put on the kettle and make a cup of tea.

Sit at the bedside and just be present to the experience in the room. What's happening for you? What might be happening for them? What other presences are here that might be supporting them on their way? Tune into all the beauty and magic.

Pausing gives your soul a chance to adjust, because no matter how prepared we are, a death is still a shock. If we kick right into "do" mode, and call 911, or call the hospice, we never get a chance to absorb the enormity of the event.

Give yourself five minutes or 10 minutes, or 15 minutes just to be. You'll never get that time back again if you don't take it now.

After that, do the smallest thing you can. Call the one person who needs to be called. Engage whatever systems need to be engaged, but engage them at the very most minimal level. Move really, really, really, slowly, because this is a period where it's easy for body and soul to get separated.

Our bodies can gallop forwards, but sometimes our souls haven't caught up. If you have an opportunity to be quiet and be present, take it. Accept and acclimatize and adjust to what's happening. Then, as the train starts rolling, and all the things that happen after a death kick in, you'll be better prepared.

You won't get a chance to catch your breath later on. You need to do it now.

Being present in the moments after death is an incredible gift to yourself, it's a gift to the people you're with, and it's a gift to the person who's just died. They're just a hair's breath away. They're just starting their new journey in the world without a body. If you keep a calm space around their body, and in the room, they're launched in a more beautiful way. It's a service to both sides of the veil.

Credit for the beautiful words ~ Sarah Kerr, Ritual Healing Practitioner and Death Doula , Death doula
Beautiful art by Columbus Community Deathcare

08/11/2021

Huge welcome HOME to our newest addition to our TEAM…Marion Hamlin, MSW we are so glad you are a part of this amazing care center⭐️

07/21/2021

Administrative Volunteer Opportunity available! 🌺 🌺 🌺
We are looking for 2 amazing office volunteers to help us help our patients.
Please contact Sharon Grassman at 757-378-9379.

07/21/2021

📣ATTENTION BEAUTY EXPERTS 📣 We need your talents!

06/21/2021

Thank you to our wonderful aides! Thank you for your giving heart and all that you do for our sweet patients. ❤️

05/31/2021

"You hope they never knock on your door dressed in uniform. You pray the nights you don’t receive a Skype call that the internet is just down. You’re grateful for the flag that flies, rather than folded in a neat triangle on your mantle. You thank God when the duffle bags litter your floor signifying he’s home safe. And above all else, you remember every man & woman who didn’t make it home, and the families they left behind.

Never forget the continued sacrifice of our military men & women. Memorial Day."

-Allie Lacey SLP-CCC Washington DC

05/31/2021

https://www.legion.org/poppyday/history