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Article: Home away from home
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- February 5, 2005
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During her long career in nursing and especially in the home care
field, Maeve Ostrowski saw the wear and tear on caregivers
responsible for care of their sick or elderly family members.
"It was becoming obvious to me that these people needed a break,'
she said. "In some cases the caregivers were dying before the
patients."
This concern kept gnawing at her until she hit on the idea of some
kind of a respite place where patients could be left for a day, a
week or longer as needed to give their caregivers a break.
At the time, back in 1999, when mulling over these thoughts, Mrs.
Ostrowski was (and still is) the executive director of the Heritage
Harbour Health Group, an organization based ...