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Is Dying on Your Bucket List?
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. Read More
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The Alive Institute Conducts Minority Focus Groups to Improve Access to Care
National studies continue to find that minority groups are not taking equal advantage of the Medicare hospice benefit. Read More
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Q&A with Death Doula Heidi O’Neil
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. Read More
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New Hires and Promotions Summer 2018
We would like to welcome aboard our new hires and congratulate those who have received promotions here at Alive. Read More
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Nurturing the Future of End-of-Life Care
One of the things that makes Alive so special is that we are a nonprofit. The highest quality medical care is just the start of what we offer. Read More
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Rituals Help Kids Heal at Grief Camp
Each summer, Alive hosts grief camps for kids and a teen retreat to help our youngest community members recover from loss. The camps give kids a safe place to bond with each other while grieving the death of someone important in their lives. Read More
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Tennessee Titans Center Ben Jones Supports Grief Services for Kids
Alive was honored to become a beneficiary of the second annual Ben Jones Clay Shoot this spring. Hosted by Tennessee Titans Center Ben Jones and his wife, Alex, the outdoor sporting event supports local nonprofits that enrich the lives of youth. Read More
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How Alive Hospice Saved Our Family
Rick Scarola remembers his grandmother, Ethel Brosgarth, as the family matriarch. She was 4-foot-10 inches tall, but larger than life. She drove until the age of 89. She was feisty, he recalled, something he always loved about her. In many ways, she was the rock of the family. When you were with her, he said, you were home. Read More
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The Time Has Come
For decades, Americans have been afraid of dying, afraid of grieving and fleeing them both. With the best of intentions, influential medical and religious institutions aid our flight. Read More
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25 Years of Alive at the Bluebird: How it All Began
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. Read More
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One of the Warmest and Fuzziest Parts of Alive: Pet Therapy!
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! Read More
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Does Alive have the solution to a national problem?
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. Read More
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100+ years of combined grief support experience
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. Read More
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Advocacy Focus Groups are yielding valuable insights
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. Read More
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Not every hospice is Alive Hospice
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. Read More
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Postcards from Camp
Our grief support camps are a safe place for kids ages 6-14 who are grieving the death of someone important in their lives. Read More
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What I Experienced at Camp Evergreen
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. Read More
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Grief support closer to home
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. Read More
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How the Alive Institute is Working to Change the World Around Us
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. Read More
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Boardchair: Dr. Warren McPherson
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. Read More
