Mount Carmel Foundation Annual Report Spring 2016 | Page 3

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Celebrating 30 Years of Compassionate Care
Mount Carmel Hospi

Thirty years of support, intervention and personalized
medical care. Thirty years of counseling and care for
patients and their families. Thirty years of compassionate
care for the end-of-life and critical needs of those served.
Thirty years of Mount Carmel Hospice.
In 1985, Sister Gladys Marie, an administrator at Mount
Carmel, decided to start a hospice program. The first
Mount Carmel Hospice patient was admitted, and a
small-but-mighty staff of four began caring for patients
at Mount Carmel West. Together they served 115 patients
that year.
From those humble beginnings an innovative program
emerged that is now a leader in central Ohio for providing
end-of-life care and support. Today Mount Carmel Hospice
occupies two floors on Dublin Road, with rooms for
counseling, group sessions, activities and training. Last
year alone, the program served nearly 2,000 patients — a
growing portion of the 22,000 it has served over the last
30 years.
The staff has grown as well, with 145 members now
supporting and carrying out the program’s mission. “It’s
a team that’s accepted a special calling,” says Trinity
Health System Director for Community Palliative Care, Lori
Yosick. “Many have said their work with Hospice was the
most rewarding work they ever did as a professional.”

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Celebrates 30 Years

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Yosick, who led the Mount Carmel Hospice and Palliative
Care program for 14 years, believes “hospice continues to
be that something else we can provide when others say
‘there is nothing more that can be done.’ We give hope; we
give quality of life; we celebrate with patients and families.”
Many of these “something else” items, as well as
programs provided by Hospice, \