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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
As reported in Madison Magazine by Joel Patenaude
Madison Magazine is hardly the only 40-year-old business in Madison. Many area businesses have lasted just as long, if not longer. Although they represent different industries, legacy companies are not unlike this publication in that their dramatic evolution was driven by personalities whose influence can still be felt.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
As reported by the Janesville Gazette
Azura Memory Care and Agrace Hospice and Pallative Care will sponsor a virtual dementia tour from 4:30-6 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at Agrace Hospice and Palliative Care, 2901 N. Wright Road, Janesville.
The virtual dementia tour uses patented devices to alter the senses to imitate the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia. The sensory experience lasts 10 minutes and gives understanding to the difficulties of living with the disease.
Reservation for the tour is required. Call Amy Cowan at 608-575-0579 to reserve a spot.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
On June 19, Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care will host the 3rd Annual A Round with Agrace golf outing at Trappers Turn Golf Club in Wisconsin Dells. Event proceeds will support Agrace’s nonprofit mission of bringing compassionate care into the homes of people living in Sauk county and surrounding communities. This includes support for Care for All—a program that provides free or discounted services to patients who cannot afford quality end-of-life care.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Reported by Madalyn O’Neill of Channel 3000
Many hairstylists would consider it a day of work, but those who spend Thursday mornings at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg think it’s a day of magic.
“I love it,” Cost Cutters volunteer Angela McIntosh said. “It’s definitely the highlight of my week to come in.”
“This is my day off every week,” volunteer Beth Anderson said.
The volunteers wash, blow-dry and curl patients’ hair, all before the clock strikes noon.
“It’s that comb and that hand, that magic hand,” a hospice patient named Mary said.
Monday, April 30, 2018
As reported by Channel 3000.com
Dr. William Rock, teacher, mentor, father and U.S. Navy veteran, passed away on April 25, 2018.
Dr. Rock was an old fashioned doctor, who never stopped making house calls to dying patients and pulling over at car accidents to see if he could help.
As a Chief Resident at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Rock met an amazing woman and ob/gyn nurse, Joan Cox. Sparks flew and the fire lasted 63 years and beyond. He often said that he couldn’t do anything without Joan’s support and wisdom. He loved singing and dancing in many of the hundreds of theatrical productions Joan directed over the years, and when he was in the audience, always cheered the loudest.
In 1958, Rock began his career as an internist at the East Madison Clinic. He has been a faculty member at UW Medical School since 1957.
Friday, April 20, 2018
April 9-11, 2018, Agrace president & CEO Lynne Sexten participated as a delegate on a learning exchange with hospices in the United Kingdom (UK). She joined a group of 25 nonprofit hospice CEOs from across the US who journeyed to Oxford University in England for a three-day exchange of best practices and ideas with hospice programs from the UK. The exchange was organized by the National Partnership for Hospice Innovation. Discussions focused on better understanding the current environment for hospice and palliative care in both countries, the nuances of palliative care, and importance of reaching broader populations through integrated care.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Al Prochnow, a 102-year-old Prairie du Sac resident and veteran, recently had a wish come true when he received a private concert from local country music musician Maggie Mae.
“Al is such a sweet man, very gentlemanly,” says Laura Burden, Al’s Agrace HospiceCare social worker. “He is blind, but loves music and listens to it constantly on TV music stations. He loves all music, but Maggie Mae is his favorite. She is the only non-family photo hanging in his room!”
Monday, April 16, 2018
As Reported by Catherine Idzerda of the Janesville Gazette
Photo credit: Angela Major
When they told Roberta Earle, 71, that a wedding was taking place, she said, in a tremulous and barely audible voice, “Who’s the poor sucker?”
She didn’t mean it. The groom was her son, Kriss Workman, and she had already advised her future daughter-in-law to marry him.
On Saturday, Workman married his longtime girlfriend, Betty Eliason, in a ceremony at The Next Inning, an assisted living facility in Orfordville.
Monday, April 16, 2018
As Reported by Shelley Mesch of Wisconsin State Journal
Middleton philanthropist Don Anderson, who with his wife, Marilyn, donated $3 million to establish a hospice facility in Fitchburg 20 years ago, died Thursday evening at age 97.
Anderson died at the facility he and his wife made possible — Agrace’s Don & Marilyn Anderson HospiceCare Center. His wife of 65 years died at the facility on April 18, 2008.
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