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Paul Pepper: MU Ext.'s "Neighborhood Leadership Academy" & Pet Wellness Alliance, a non-proft clinicDid you know that Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia - a non-profit that helps families and individuals with end-of-life care - got its start thanks to MU Extension's 'Neighborhood Leadership Academy'? Co-founder JACKIE REED tells us how NLA's 10-week training program provided her with the right skills to move her idea forward. LETITIA JOHNSON invites anyone interested to sign up for the next session! Also, veterinarians ANNA DELABAR and ABBIE KNUDSEN introduce us to Pet Wellness Alliance, a year-old, non-profit clinic in Columbia for everyone, really, but especially individuals or families who maybe can't afford proper care for their pet. (4:35) August 14, 2023
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Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia is a free service for someone who needs a little something more in their final 30 days of life: "hospice provides the medical; we provide the home". Take a look inside that new home on today's show. Guests: DORREEN RARDIN and DR. JOE MUSCATO June 2, 2023
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Meet Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia's new director of operations, KASEY RYAN. Along with founder DORREEN RARDIN (and a host of trained volunteers), CHHC's mission of giving those with 30 days left to live a home away from home (and/or a hospital) is now a comfortable option for those entering the final phase of life. February 28, 2023
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Paul Pepper: Dorreen Rardin and Patrick Lee, Caring Hearts & Hands of Columbia, "Lights of Love '22"Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia is once again hosting its annual 'Lights of Love Memorial Event' next Saturday at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia. Purchase your luminary today! "It truly is a celebration of lives of loved ones lost." Guests: PATRICK LEE and DORREEN RARDIN October 6, 2022
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When might you transition end-of-life care to Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia? Co-founder JACKIE REED says it's more or less when caregiver fatigue sets in. "There's a point where a person can't be left alone and they need a lot more care." Board member DEB PORTELL can speak from personal experience: "everyone deserves to die with dignity." July 22, 2022
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Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia wants you to "celebrate the life of a loved one" next month at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia. Lights for Love: A Memorial Event will feature a program, music, and the luminaries as a tribute to those we've lost over the past couple of years. All proceeds will go towards the construction of a permanent home for CHHC. Guests: DORREEN RARDIN and DR. JOE MUSCATO October 18, 2021
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"The organization works through hospice, it's not a hospice itself...so it's just a place to be that's not home if the patient and the family feel that home is not the best place to die." -- DR. JOE MUSCATO speaking to the purpose of Caring Hearts and Hands, an organization founded by today's other guest, DORREEN RARDIN. June 8, 2021
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Still in development, JACKIE REED says Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia will be a place, a home-like setting, that a person can come to in their last…
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"There's a group of people that we were missing," says DORREEN RARDIN, retired coordinator of palliative care at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. That…