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Alive News, Recognition
We would like to welcome aboard our new hires and congratulate those who have received promotions here at Alive.
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Volunteer Services
Death doulas are specially trained volunteers who provide support and comfort in the final days and hours of a person’s life. They help patients and their loved ones simply by being present in a vigil at the bedside when the dying person has started to transition.
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Alive Institute, Alive News
National studies continue to find that minority groups are not taking equal advantage of the Medicare hospice benefit.
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Alive Institute, Special Events
For the past several years, the Alive Institute’s annual symposium has served as a unique gathering for community members from all walks of life.
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Our Care, Stories of Alive
There are approximately 43.5 million caregivers in the U.S. They provided an estimated $470 billion worth of care in 2013, nearly the same amount that the world’s largest company, Wal-Mart, made in sales that same year. The value of this unpaid care exceeded paid home care and total Medicaid spending.*
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Support for Alive
Have you ever asked yourself, “What is the purpose of life?” What will endure from the hard work, failures and successes, good decisions and good fortune you have created throughout your life? Do you hope that this world, even if only the small part of the world you reside, is a better place because you lived?
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Alive News, Our Care
Providing loving care to people with life-threatening illnesses is an integral part of the mission at Alive. With every patient and family we serve, we know that the quality of that care is critical.
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Special Events, Support for Alive
Every song begins with a single note. Twenty-five years ago, the longest running concert series in the history of The Bluebird Cafe began with a single night - or that was the original idea, anyway.
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Alive Grief Support, Special Events, Stories of Alive
The first few years of my tenure at Alive, I observed the closing ceremony for Camp Evergreen, one of our children's grief support camps, from the back of the room.
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Alive Institute, Alive News
Alive has been a pioneering organization from the very beginning. Our founders, Dr. and Mrs. David Barton and the late Dr. John Flexner, brought an entire branch of medicine to Tennessee - hospice care - that did not exist here before 1975.
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Alive News, Our Care
Alive was approached by TriStar Summit Medical Center two years ago to explore whether we would be interested in providing an inpatient palliative care consult service to their patients.
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Special Events, Support for Alive
The 2017 Alive At The Bluebird concert series was the biggest yet with 36 shows and more than 130 participating songwriters – more than ever before on both counts!
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Volunteer Services
Pet therapy (also known as “animal-assisted activities”) is one of the most beloved parts of our volunteer program. You might say it’s the warmest and fuzziest aspect of Alive, and it’s not hard to see why!
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Board of Directors, Recognition
Alive has been dear to Judy Orr for more than 16 years. Touched personally by the care we provide for patients and families, she has been an ambassador for this organization and an advocate for end-of-life planning because she believes the last chapter of life should be embraced, not put out of mind.
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Board of Directors, Recognition
For the last six years, Dr. Warren McPherson has been a champion and ambassador for Alive as a board member. He has played a variety of leadership roles, including cochair of our Murfreesboro Advisory Committee and Closer to Home Capital Campaign Committee, which led the effort to build The Residence at Alive Hospice Murfreesboro.
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Alive Grief Support
Alive Grief Support is comprised of 8 master’s level grief counselors who have more than 100 years of combined experience with caring for grieving families and individuals.
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Alive Grief Support, Alive News
One of the things we’ve been most excited about this year is the expansion of our grief support services at Alive’s two new offices in Hendersonville and Lebanon.
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Alive Grief Support, Special Events
Our grief support camps are a safe place for kids ages 6-14 who are grieving the death of someone important in their lives.
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Alive Institute, Alive News
Alive is well known here in Middle Tennessee; we were the first hospice provider in the Southeast, as you may recall. But our star is on the rise because of some of the innovative things we’re doing within the realm of training and education, and we’re attracting attention on the national stage.
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Alive Institute
It is no secret that minorities in America are underrepresented in hospice care. Studies have been conducted around the nation to help explain why, but Alive wanted to learn the attitudes and opinions of our local communities. Starting in 2016, we began a series of Advocacy Focus Groups.