Visit the BridgingLife website (formerly Carroll Hospice) to learn more about the compassionate care we’ve been providing for more than 30 years.
Taste of Carroll is Now Taste & Toast
The same annual culinary event you know—and love—is back with a new name and look to support comfort and care at BridgingLife.
BridgingLife Named Recipient in Jersey Mike’s Month of Giving
Jersey Mike’s Subs in Mt. Airy, Eldersburg and Urbana has once again selected BridgingLife as its 2023 recipient of its Month of Giving fundraising campaign!
Community-Based Palliative Care: Enhancing Comfort & Quality of Life
Palliative care is specialized medical care that focuses on the physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals and their families living with serious illness.
BridgingLife Plans Long-Overdue Bar Mitzvah for Holocaust Survivor
Chaya Lasson, R.N., BridgingLife’s director of Jewish hospice and palliative care, knew that hospice patient Israel Gruzin was a man of great faith. When she would drop in to visit him, he would give her a blessing, often in Yiddish. He was well loved in the Jewish community. The pews and bookshelves he crafted as a custom woodworker adorned many of the community’s synagogues.
He was also a Holocaust survivor, one who had spent his 13th birthday—typically a milestone birthday in the Jewish faith—imprisoned in a concentration camp.
A Hand for Helping, A Heart for Service
The volunteers at BridgingLife are some of the best advocates for individuals in hospice care, their families and the clinical care team. “It takes a special kind of heart to dedicate your time to helping those in hospice,” shares Kathy Barna, volunteer coordinator at BridgingLife. “Volunteers can provide insight into the patient’s emotions that a clinical team might not always get.”
Meet NEW Child Life Specialist Tara O’Donnell
After volunteering years ago with a pediatric hospice team, Tara O’Donnell felt called to serve children and their families in the medical setting.
BridgingLife: A Continuum of Care
BridgingLife. I have spoken on numerous occasions regarding our new name (not so new anymore!) and how I feel that it more accurately reflects our expansion in both the communities that we serve and the services that we offer. What I haven’t spoken about is our pledge to families: “Compassionate Care for Life’s Transitions.”
Love & Struggle: The Family Caregiving Crisis
On the Carroll Hospital Health Chat, BridgingLife’s Regina Bodnar and Chaya Lasson, R.N., discuss the upcoming event:
Love & Struggle: The Family Caregiving Crisis
An Evening with Dr. Jessica Zitter
It’s time to talk about the most important multi-generational health crisis—family caregiving.
Presented by BridgingLife and Living Well @ The J, join us for an extraordinary evening with Dr. Zitter, a nationally recognized advocate for quality end-of-life care.
• Screen her award-winning short documentary, Caregiver: A Love Story, which shares an intimate look at one couple’s experiences and challenges during end-of-life care at home
• Hear Dr. Zitter present on this important topic
• Dr. Zitter will sign copies of her book at 6:30 p.m. and after the program; books will be available for purchase
• FREE Continuing Education Credits available
Jersey Mike’s Franchisee Nick Sargent Believes In Giving Back
Pay it forward.
It’s a simple yet powerful sentiment that Nick Sargent’s father shared with him growing up. And it made a lasting impression on Nick. “I’ve tried to carry that with me,” he says.
Carroll Hospital Health Chat: BridgingLife
On the Carroll Hospital Health Chat, learn more about BridgingLife and the compassionate hospice and palliative care it provides.
Listen to the Carroll Hospital Health Chat every Tuesday at 8:20 a.m. on WTTR 1470 AM/102.3 FM!