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Editorial: Step up to help Agrace meet matching grant

Editorial: Step up to help Agrace meet matching grant

Friday, October 5, 2018

Cap Times editorial

Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care, the area nonprofit that regularly is praised for the quality of its end of life services to thousands of local people, needs your help.

Back in August, a group of donors in honor of Agrace’s 40th anniversary combined to pledge $400,000 to the nonprofit’s campaign to raise money for its “Care for All” endowment.

Just one catch: The donations required Agrace to raise a matching $400,000 by Oct. 14.

Unfortunately, the campaign is in danger of falling short of the match. While Agrace has been able to raise $250,000, it needs some good donations in the coming week to reach the match.

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Employees put on Race for Agrace to help patients

Sunday, September 16, 2018

FITCHBURG (WKOW) — Employees at Agrace Hospice are helping their patients pay for care.

The Race for Agrace is a one-mile fun walk and timed 5K to support the nonprofit Care for All Foundation. Care for All provides free or discounted services to patients who can’t afford end of life or palliative care.

The run was organized by Agrace employees who wanted to help their patients.

“We hope through the race to raise about $33-thousand. Also really exciting is we have a match campaign right now going for our Care for All Foundation, so that those dollars should be able to be matched to help us achieve the final $1 million that we hope to raise for Care for All,” said Chris Hammer, a nurse with Agrace.

This was the second annual Race for Agrace.

Agrace is a non-profit, community-supported agency with offices in Madison, Janesville, Baraboo and Rockford.

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Agrace Invites Public to 40th Anniversary Celebration Event

Agrace Invites Public to 40th Anniversary Celebration Event

Friday, August 3, 2018

Agrace HospiceCare is turning 40! A public celebration of this milestone is being held August 14 in Madison. Anyone who has used Agrace’s compassionate care for their family, or simply wants to ensure Agrace is available for generations to come, is welcome to join the party.

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Dean-o Trevino Golf Outing

Dean-o Trevino Golf Outing

Friday, August 3, 2018

Dean Frederickson, beloved husband, father, grandpa, and friend, passed away from cancer in September 2017 surrounded by his family at the Agrace Hospice facility in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. Not only was Dean blessed with such wonderful care in his final month, but the support and care given to the family will never be forgotten.

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Agrace Adds Members to Foundation Board

Agrace Adds Members to Foundation Board

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care has appointed Karen Christianson, Judith Martinez, Terry Murawski and Bill Schendt to its Foundation board. Agrace is Wisconsin’s largest nonprofit community hospice and palliative care agency, providing end-of-life care and related services to people in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. The Agrace Foundation Board guides fundraising, helping to meet the current and future needs of the organization.

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Decades of change and compassion

Decades of change and compassion

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.

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Virtual Dementia Tour visits Janesville

Virtual Dementia Tour visits Janesville

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.

Volunteers bring salon services to hospice patients

Volunteers bring salon services to hospice patients

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.

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Dr. Bill Rock, hospice pioneer in Madison, dies at 92

Dr. Bill Rock, hospice pioneer in Madison, dies at 92

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.

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