The Hospice Team – Together We Are Better

The Hospice Team – Together We Are Better

Submitted by Sharon Davidson Recently, BBH staff partnered together to assist one of our hospice patients in Gadsden County. The patient had been living in a van in the Quincy Walmart parking lot for two months when he was referred for hospice services. The BBH...
Social Workers are “Essential”

Social Workers are “Essential”

Big Bend Hospice (BBH) is honoring and highlighting their social workers during March as part of National Social Workers Month. This year’s appropriate theme “Social Workers are Essential” expresses what hospice patients, families, and BBH staff have always known....
Team Work to Support Local Food Bank

Team Work to Support Local Food Bank

The Impact it Could Have on COVID-19 Submitted by Sharon D. Davidson, CVA, BBH Senior Director of Community Engagement Big Bend Hospice teamed up with Pilot Club Tallahassee and the Florida Peanut Federation to provide 15 dozen cases of peanut butter to Franklin...
Appreciating our Caregivers

Appreciating our Caregivers

Contributed by by Fabiola Jean-Charles, Transitions Program Manager and Ryan Thompson, Transitions Program Social Worker This month, Transitions recognized the caregivers of our clients for Caregiver Appreciation Day (February 19). With the help of an exceptional...
Supporting Caregivers

Supporting Caregivers

Contributed by Fabiola Jean-Charles, Transitions & AmeriCorps Program Manager Caregivers have one of the hardest roles a person can fill, so Transitions, BBH’s pre-hospice program, recently showed their caregivers how much they are recognized, appreciated,...
Volunteers Safely Continue to Serve

Volunteers Safely Continue to Serve

Contributed by Lisa Baggett, BBH Professional Relations Liaison Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful.” When my grandmother became a widow, she moved from Jacksonville to Signal Mountain to be near her daughter. The...