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Beaver Island Hospice reports nine year-round volunteers and new hospital beds in September 2002

Also Beaver Island Hospice News Update 2002 · Beaver Island Hospice hospital beds

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Date2002-09
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Summary

Beaver Island Hospice reported nine year-round volunteers available for respite care as summer helpers departed in fall 2002. Munson Hospice provided two new electric hospital beds, while three older beds were offered to Island residents; the report also acknowledged donations and memorial plantings at Holy Cross.

Evidence limits

The article gives a contemporaneous service and equipment update, not a complete volunteer roster, patient record, or inventory of hospice equipment.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2002, “Hospice News Update.”
    Reports nine year-round respite-care volunteers, two new electric hospital beds from Munson Hospice, the planned distribution of three older beds, donations, and memorial plantings at Holy Cross Church. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the Hospice report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-09_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Hospice reports nine year-round volunteers and new hospital beds in September 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-hospice-news-update-september-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2002, “Hospice News Update.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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