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  • Care Initiatives Hospice - Sioux City welcomes new team director

         Kristin Behrendsen, RN, has joined Care Initiatives Hospice as the new Sioux City Team Director. In her role as Team Director, Behrendsen will oversee a team of a registered nurses, hospice aides, spiritual care and bereavement counselors, social workers and devoted local volunteers. Behrendsen is a Registered Nurse who has devoted her career to working with older Iowans in long term...

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  • SC Hospice first blood drive a success

    Way to go TEAM! Making this a regular event would awesome for us. Below are the results and comments from our LifeServe Representative. Thank you to all who took time out of their day to help!

    The results:

    16 registered donors

    15 eligible to give

    15 units of blood collected

    45 lives saved or impacted!

    The best news is that there were 6 first time donors. Most of our blood drives don’t even get 2 first time donors! We are so thankful for...

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  • Back in the Saddle

    For Ray Taylor of Ottumwa, it was horses that brought out the best in him as a kid, even in the toughest of times. On Tuesday, July 31, he was able to regain that sensation one more time with help from staff of Care Initiatives Hospice in partnership with Victory Ranch.

    “Growing up, Ray had a pretty tumultuous childhood,” said Social Worker Jacque Heiter, a member of the Care Initiatives Hospice staff who has been working to make his final wish a reality.

    “Ray’s father died when he was young, and the man his mother married was abusive,” Heiter said. Eventually, his mother...

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  • Back in the Saddle

    For Ray Taylor of Ottumwa, it was horses that brought out the best in him as a kid, even in the toughest of times. On Tuesday, July 31, he was able to regain that sensation one more time with help from staff of Care Initiatives Hospice in partnership with Victory Ranch.

    “Growing up, Ray had a pretty tumultuous childhood,” said Social Worker Jacque Heiter, a member of the Care Initiatives Hospice staff who has been working to make his final wish a reality.

    “Ray’s father died when he was young, and the man his mother married was abusive,” Heiter said. Eventually, his mother...

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