A message to our community

Our hearts are with everyone affected by the tragedy at Silver Rail Elementary School. Many in the Partners In Care family have been personally impacted, and we grieve alongside our community today. We extend our deepest condolences to the children, families, educators, and all who are mourning. May we come together with compassion, kindness, and support in the days ahead. We stand ready to support our community during this tragic time.

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Education and Support focus: The groups and workshops we offer are meant to help individuals navigate normal grief processing. They do not substitute for formal medical, psychological, or psychiatric healthcare advice, diagnosis, or clinical treatment.
If our team determines that your needs exceed the scope of our open community programs, we will do our best to provide you with a referral to independent, licensed mental health professional or outside community agencies. We do not control or guarantee the availability or cost of those outside services.
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News & Announcements

Our latest news and announcements

Home Health Care Visits: What to Expect and How to Prepare

Home Health Care Visits: What to Expect and How to Prepare

When a loved one comes home from the hospital, it’s natural to feel uncertain about what comes next. Managing a health condition in a family member may feel difficult to handle, especially for those untrained in medical care. Those uncertainties and trepidations are...

How Long Can Someone Stay on Hospice Care? What Families Should Know

How Long Can Someone Stay on Hospice Care? What Families Should Know

When you're facing the possibility of hospice care for a loved one or considering it for yourself, one of the most natural questions a family member asks is: "How long will this last?" It's a question rooted in love and the very human need to understand what comes...

Partners In Care Announces Queen of Hearts campaign for Hospice House

Partners In Care Announces Queen of Hearts campaign for Hospice House

[BEND, OREGON, April 14, 2025] Partners In Care announces its “Queen of Hearts” endowment campaign for Hospice House. In 1979, a group of volunteers created their own model of care for people who were terminally ill, based on the hospice philosophy of care that had...

Partners In Care Introduces End-of-Life Doula Program

Partners In Care Introduces End-of-Life Doula Program

[BEND, Ore., February 27, 2025] Partners In Care, the leading and most trusted provider of hospice, home health, and palliative care services in Central Oregon, will be introducing an official end-of-life doula program in partnership with The Peaceful Presence...

Partners In Care Invites the Community to Education Series in 2025

[BEND, Ore., January 29, 2025] Local nonprofit Partners In Care invites community members in Central Oregon to its revamped, in-person education series this year. For the past 17 years, Partners In Care has been providing no-cost community education on a myriad of...

Partners In Care Achieves Five Star CMS Ratings for Patient Care

Partners In Care Achieves Five Star CMS Ratings for Patient Care

Local Nonprofit Recognized Nationally for Exceptional Hospice and Home Health Care Programs [BEND, Ore., November 21, 2024] For the third year in a row, Partners In Care has been recognized with a prestigious five-star rating on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare...

Partners In Care Collaborates with ALSNW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5SJ2SpPlYw Partners In Care Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) Adam Pike and our Board Member and Neurologist, Dr. Greg Ferenz support ALS Northwest as specialists in collaboration with their clinic. The work they do alongside the...

How It Can Be

By Robin Emerson, Partners In Care Volunteer For the past year and a half, I’ve visited a woman, now 77, diagnosed with a degenerative condition that causes changes in motor and language skills as areas of the brain atrophy and nerve cells die. “I’m a prisoner in my...

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Current News from around the country

New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs

Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 Billion in Medicare Savings in One Year. Better Outcomes Together with Medicare Savings Demonstrate Hospice’s Value

(Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC) – New research shows that patients’ use of hospice care contributed to $3.5 billion in savings for Medicare in 2019, while providing multiple benefits to patients, families, and caregivers…
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‘We do not do the end of life well’ – How hospice can help 

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s decision to seek hospice care and receive care at home has helped bring awareness to an industry that quietly serves people at the end of their lives.

Hospice, which provides care and support services for patients who are terminally ill with a life expectancy of six months or less, offers care at the end of life — something that people often are uncomfortable talking about… Read more

Redmond toddler, family struggle against devastating diagnosis 

“That’s the thing. This is a learning process,” Megan Ryan said. “We’re a team. We’re going through this together. Kash is teaching us.”

“My job is to help people live — not die,” Kindra Wey, Kashtyn’s hospice nurse, said. Rather than making Kashtyn suffer just to extend his life for a few more months, the family has decided to instead focus on making his short life as happy and comfortable as possible…

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