Tina Gonyea, (center) Head Coach of the Platt High Girls’ Basketball Team, Meriden, recently met with Sister Barbara Johnson, FSE, Executive Director, Franciscan Life Center, and Sister Suzanne Gross, FSE, Administrator, Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care. Coach Gonyea is receiving the Saint Clare Award at the 36th Annual Franciscan Sports Banquet and Silent [...]
Frances Mahoney, RN, receives a “Thank You” lunch from Marie Laffin, RN, Clinical Supervisor, and gifts from Sarah Rovinsky, Patient Care Coordinator, commemorating National Nurses Week, May 6-12. The agency provided a lite fare for the nurses to show appreciation for all they do for our patients.
Barbara Raby, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator, Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care, offers an African violet to one of the participants attending the recently held Seasons of Hope Mass, a service remembering those who have recently died for whom we cared in our Franciscan Hospice Care program.
Sister Suzanne Gross, FSE, Administrator, Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care, and Laura Borrelli, RN, Hospice Director, receive 2021 Fazzi recognition award. Franciscan Hospice Care, a program of Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care, is a 2021 Top 25 Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) national best practice agency according to the overall [...]
Your Vote Counts! If you are an Ion Bank customer, support our community-based services by voting for Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care. Through your participation in the Ion Bank Foundation’s 13th Annual Community Awards Program, you are helping us care for others. Voting is Tuesday, February 1 through Wednesday, March 15, 2022. Franciscan Home [...]
Becoming a Franciscan Hospice Volunteer is a rewarding opportunity to journey with someone in the latter portion of his/her life. Franciscan hospice volunteers receive 16 hours of training that enables them to be present to others in a very special way in order to support both the individual and their family through a difficult [...]
January 1 Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, our Lady's greatest title "Mary, the all-holy ever-virgin Mother of God, is the masterwork of the mission of the Son and the Spirit in the fullness of time. For the first time in the plan of salvation and because his Spirit had prepared her, [...]
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE 55th WORLD DAY OF PEACE 1 JANUARY 2022 1. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace”(Is 52:7). In every age, peace is both a gift from on high and the fruit of a shared commitment. Indeed, we [...]
A message from Sister Barbara Johnson, Executive Director, Franciscan Life Center and Sister Suzanne Gross, Administrator of Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care:
