VITAS Innovative Hospice Care® Offers Service, Support to Tsunami Grievers
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, contact:
Mark Cohen, VP/Communications & Public Relations

Park Ridge, January 24, 2005—VITAS Innovative Hospice Care® invites the Chicago community to remember victims and survivors of the Tsunami in an interfaith and ecumenical memorial service Friday, January 28, 6 p.m. at the Park Ridge Park District Community Center at Centennial Park, 1515 West Touhy Avenue (Touhy at Western) in Park Ridge.

The service is sponsored by VITAS’ Chicagoland Northwest program, whose professional bereavement counselors are available to provide support to community members grieving the loss of loved ones in the aftermath of this disaster. For information contact Bereavement Manager Rev. Wanda Jenkins, B.A., M.H.S., at 630-495-8484.

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VITAS Innovative Hospice Care®, a pioneer and leader in the hospice movement since 1978, is the nation’s largest provider of end-of-life care. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, VITAS (pronounced VEE-tahs) operates 34 hospice programs in 12 states (Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin). VITAS employs 7,159 professionals who care for terminally ill patients daily, primarily in the patients’ homes but also in the company’s 24 inpatient hospice units as well as in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities/residential care facilities for the elderly. At the conclusion of the fourth quarter of 2004, VITAS reported an average daily census of 9,134.
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