Patricia Roemer, RN, MSN, CHPN
Executive Director
Patricia grew up on a wheat farm near Lahoma and has been a hospice nurse on the Strip for thirty years.
Our people
Meet our team
Nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers who live in the towns they serve.
Our team
The people at your door
Dr. Edward Kliewer
Hospice Medical Director
An Enid family physician for thirty-three years. He makes house calls and video visits across seven counties.
Dr. Priya Sandhu
Associate Medical Director
Board certified in hospice and palliative medicine. She covers the Alva and Medford offices.
Monica Hayes, RN
Director of Nursing
Monica leads nurses in all four offices and still covers patients in Kingfisher County.
Travis Unruh, RN
On-Call Nurse, Alva
Travis covers nights in Woods and Alfalfa counties. Families know his truck on the section roads.
Pastor Ruth Schmidt
Chaplain
A Lutheran pastor who serves families of every faith. She can talk wheat prices and scripture in the same breath.
Rev. James Whitecrow
Chaplain
A Methodist minister of Cheyenne heritage who honors traditional ways when families ask.
Dana Penner, LMSW
Medical Social Worker
Dana handles SoonerCare, VA forms and the hard questions about land and leases.
Luz Ortega, CNA
Hospice Aide
Luz has cared for our patients for eighteen years, in English or Spanish, with the gentlest hands we know.
Col. (Ret.) Frank Delaney
Veteran Volunteer Lead
A retired Air Force pilot who flew out of Vance. He leads our pinning ceremonies.
Marjorie Fast
Volunteer Coordinator
Marjorie trains more than a hundred volunteers in four towns and records life stories herself.
Helen Goeringer
Bereavement Coordinator
Helen has led our grief program for twenty years and started the harvest memorial.
Sample family reviews
Letters from wheat country
Your volunteers sat with my grandfather in 1981. Your nurses cared for my father last fall. Forty years and the kindness hasn't changed.
Travis drove out past Cherokee at 2 a.m. in an ice storm. The comfort kit got us through the forty minutes until he arrived.
Dad wanted to see one more harvest. They planned around it, and we parked his wheelchair at the edge of the field to watch the combines roll.
Dana helped us sort out the wheat lease and the cattle. That was weighing on Mom more than the cancer.
Col. Delaney pinned my husband in our living room. Bob flew B-52s. He sat up straight and saluted back.
Pastor Schmidt sang the German hymns with Grandma. Grandma knew every word.
Luz braided Mamá's hair and spoke Spanish with her every visit. Mamá lit up.
Dr. Kliewer did video visits when the roads were bad and came in person when it mattered.
Rev. Whitecrow prayed with Grandpa in Cheyenne. Grandpa cried, and so did we.
A night sitter came three nights a week. I slept for the first time in a month.
At the harvest memorial they read Daddy's name as the sun went down over the wheat. I couldn't have imagined a better goodbye.
A nurse visited during our first harvest without him. She knew that's when it would hurt. She was right.
Neighbors since 1979.
Call or text with any question. A hospice nurse will answer, and nothing is decided until you're ready.