April 16, 2019
Unique Hospice Volunteer Team Comforts With Presence — and Fur
By In the Loop
Jayne Boeding hadn’t planned on becoming a volunteer until life slowed down. But then golden retriever Brady joined her family, and Jayne immediately saw Brady’s pet therapy potential. Jayne Boeding and her golden retriever, Brady, walked to the door of the patient’s room and peered inside. The woman was sleeping. Or appeared to be. Then […]
Tags: hospice, Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing, volunteer
July 31, 2014
Blanketing Hospice Patients With Warmth and Comfort
By In the Loop
Everyone handles personal loss in their own unique way. When Red Wing, Minnesota, resident Ruthe Exner lost her husband in March 2012, she held true to that idea by pouring her energy and sewing talents into creating what the Red Wing Republican-Eagle recently called a “touching tradition” for hospice patients at Mayo Clinic Health System in […]
Tags: hospice, Mayo Clinic Health System, Red Wing