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July 16, 19, 23 and 26 from 6-9:00 p.m. each evening. Will be held at Moville City Hall, 21 W Main St. Please call our office at 800-383-4545 or 233-4100 and ask for a Volunteer Coordinator with questions or to register.Read more

  (Alexandria, Va) – It has been widely reported in a statement from the Bush family that former First Lady Barbara Bush has decided to forgo further hospitalizations and curative-focused medical treatments and has chosen to receive comfort care. Questions have come in to NHPCO asking for further details about what makes up comfort care.Read more

  Of all the traits she inherited from her father, Mattie Carstens is most grateful for his love of travel. Her favorite memories involve conversations and summer scenery and reading aloud as her dad drove his long-distance trucking route to Washington state. At every stop, Ken Carstens never failed to make a friend. “He wasRead more

New Hospice Director Leads With Experience and Compassion As newly named director for Hospice of Siouxland, Ann Myers knows the value of hospice and palliative care, inside and out. From her first job out of nursing school in a small-town hospice, to working as a home health nurse, then as part owner of 11 nursingRead more

Congregations are ideal settings for beginning to talk about what matters most to people when it comes to making decisions about the kind of health care they want and don’t want in the face of very serious illness. Starting Tuesday, April 17, 2018, The Conversation Project’s advisor to faith, Rosemary Lloyed, will host a FREE,Read more

Hospice of Siouxland (locally owned by Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City and Unity Point-St. Lukes), is proud to announce Ann Myers as the Director of Hospice of Siouxland. Ann has been a lifelong resident of Sioux City and has   over 30 years of experience in the medical field with expertise in the areas of home health,Read more

We thank our Hospice of Siouxland Volunteers for all they do for our patients and their families. Here is a comment from Fran who is one of our Hospice volunteers: “I am so pleased that I am a trained Hospice Volunteer! I especially like working with the family grief groups, but also enjoy volunteering for individualsRead more

From the Caregiver Space My family has reached the “expert” level when it comes to handling major hospitalizations. Each time a crisis hits, I hear the well-meant refrain from kindhearted folks who simply say, “Call me if there is anything I can do.” Face it. I am not going to call. It’s not that IRead more

By Patty Webster, 11/08/2017 April Fools’ Day and May 1st will always be embedded in my head and heart as the two days when the earth shifted beneath my feet. My mom unexpectedly had a stroke on April 1 and then died exactly a month later when she was 73. You may think dying atRead more

Sioux City, IA — November 13, 2017— Community Health Accreditation Partner, Inc., (CHAP) announced that Hospice of Siouxland has been awarded CHAP Accreditation under the CHAP Hospice Standards of Excellence. By achieving CHAP Accreditation, Hospice of Siouxland has also been deemed to meet the Medicare Conditions of Participation and is certified as a Medicare provider.Read more