Article: HOSPICE HELPS DYING THROUGH THEIR FINAL DAYS

PHOTO - KAREN RIENTS

THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. RENSSELAER

A hospice is not a building, but rather a way of caring for patients that are terminally ill. Karen Rients stressed that statement recently regarding the establishment of a hospice in Jasper County. Rients, a registered nurse employed by the Home Health Care Agency of Jasper County Hospital in Rensselaer, is the driving force that brought the idea of a hospice to reality.

Rients said she thought about the possibility of starting a hospice in late 1986. Throughout 1987, that idea was ever present on Rients' mind as she worked with patients needing the services of the Home Health Care ...

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