Our patients’ stories
Mission Hospice & Home Care serves patients of all ages with compassionate and professional end-of-life care. Some of them chose to share their stories with us.
- Ceramic artist Gary Roth continues to create beauty
- Palliative Care team supports Rhiannon and her mom Terena
- Barbara Ross: Teacher, artist, and author shares experience with hospice
- Ron McKinney: Taking control with the End of Life Option Act
- Senior care expert Bernie Mellott learns benefits of hospice first-hand
- Advocate Craig McCulloh uses comedy to raise spirits and funds
- Wenny Lee: Caring for husband inspires nurse practitioner to improve hospice education
- A journey: Moving from duet to solo
- Embracing grief wholeheartedly
- Living and dying – on his own terms
- Celeste Pagan learned to find her own way after son Carter’s death
- Mission House – A home for the entire family
- My Mission Hospice volunteer – a special friend
- John Dabney finds gratitude is the key to resilience
- Cass Gonzalez: Following a path of passion and positivity
- Counting my blessings – and my Mission Hospice friends
- Helen Holmgren: Home is where the art is
- Foster City’s Marvin Crockett: Finding comfort in cycling
- Betty Loesch: A generous life
- Larry Barsanti: Helping a World War II veteran stay in his home
- Mary Jean Place: Focusing on what matters most
- Mission House offers families time together
- Tom Flahavan: The life of the party
- Grace Belsky, age 105: Finding beauty all around her
- A lifelong practice: Yogi Arley Gaines
- Author and patient Boyd Hurtado: Writing his own final chapter
- Jack Vaessen: A courageous survivor
- Mission Hospice care team lets Julie Hoffman be a sister again
- Nicholas Ioimo: Mission Hospice & Home Care team honors World War II veteran
- Al and Joan Perris: When strength means accepting help
- Bob Robinson: Support for patient and family
- Ray Martini: Honorable to the end
- Nurse Jane Tobin: She who answered the call
- Children and parents cope with dying loved one
- Ruben Valencia: Family first
- Ellen Fletcher: Bike activist independent to the end
- “Team George” at patient’s side
- Jackie Haugh: Daughter, writer, caregiver
- Continuum of Care helps family cope with all stages of illness
- Michael O’Brien: Fundraising provides care for uninsured
- Kathy McFarland: Making the most of every day
- Neal Love: Comprehensive support for whole family
- George Kromhout: “A good life”
- Dennis Bennett: Pain control care returned him to active life
