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Life-story intake
We learn who your loved one has been before we write the care plan.
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Hospice · Sherman, Denison & North Texas
Every life is a story. We help you finish it well.
Hospice nurses, aides, chaplains and social workers serving Grayson, Fannin and Cooke counties, with a nurse who answers any hour and a team that takes the time to know who your loved one has been.
- 1991serving North Texas
- 3counties along the Red River
- 365days a year a hospice nurse answers
Our approach
We start with who they are.
Before we talk about medicines, we ask about the person. Where did she grow up? What did he do for a living? Who's the grandchild she brags about? What hymn does she want, and what joke does he tell every Thanksgiving?
Those answers shape everything that follows: how we talk to her, which aide we send, what music plays, how the room is arranged. Good hospice care is clinical and personal at the same time, and we refuse to be one without the other.
— Elaine Whitfield, RN, MSN, CHPN, Executive Director
- 1991serving North Texas
- 3counties along the Red River
- 365days a year a hospice nurse answers
- 13months of grief support afterward
What families tell us
The three things they remember
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Recorded life stories
A volunteer records stories and gives the family a keepsake recording and booklet.
Free
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Bereavement support
Calls, letters, visits and grief groups in Sherman and Denison.
13 months
We believe a person is more than a diagnosis. We believe the stories matter: the ranch, the classroom, the fifty-year marriage, the war nobody talks about. We believe comfort and honesty belong together. And we believe that when the end comes, nobody should be a stranger in their own life.
Photo tour
Portraits
Where we care
Wherever home is
The same team and the same benefit, in any setting.
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At home
Most patients stay in their own bed. We bring the equipment, medicines and team.
- Equipment delivered
- Scheduled visits
- 24/7 phone line
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On the farm or ranch
Long driveways and gravel roads are part of the job.
- Rural visits
- Night calls
- Same team
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With family
We care for patients in a son's or daughter's home and teach the whole household.
- Family training
- Volunteer relief
- Same benefit
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In assisted living
We add hospice nursing, aides, chaplain and social work to the care already in place.
- Works with staff
- Family meetings
- Same team
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In a nursing home
We work with nursing home staff on comfort. Room and board is billed separately.
- Comfort plan
- Aide visits
- Family support
Our team
Our people
Elaine Whitfield, RN, MSN, CHPN
Executive Director
Dr. James Okonkwo
Hospice Medical Director
Rebecca Lang, RN
Director of Nursing
Marcus Reed, RN
On-Call Nurse
Sample family reviews
Letters from families
Walter recorded Daddy talking about the Korean War, things he'd never told us. We play it every Veterans Day.
The first nurse visit, she asked what Mom did for a living. Mom taught third grade for forty years. After that, every aide called her Mrs. Collins.
Grace took a portrait of all four generations in Grandma's living room. It's the last photo of all of us together.
Marcus answered at 3 a.m. and talked me through it calmly. Then he came anyway, just to be sure.
Sister Mary Catherine sat with us all night at the end. I don't know what we'd have done without her.
Kim learned that Dad loved Bob Wills. She'd hum 'San Antonio Rose' while she shaved him.
Dr. Okonkwo sat at our table and explained everything. He was honest, and that was a gift.
Danielle had the VA paperwork filed in a week. Mom didn't have to worry about a thing.
Mom wrote letters to my daughters for their weddings, with a volunteer's help. They're sealed in the cedar chest.
At the Evening of Stories I told about Dad's terrible jokes. Everybody laughed. It was the first time I'd laughed in months.
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Readers’ Choice · Best Senior Care
- Community Choice Awards · Winner
- Regional Business Journal · Top Workplaces
- County Chamber · Small Business of the Year
- Family Caregiver Alliance · Partner
- Local Hospital System · Preferred Partner
Contact
On North Travis Street
- 415 N Travis Street
Sherman, TX
Free parking on Travis Street and in the lot behind our building. The rear entrance is level and opens into our family room. - (903) 555-0172
- Text us
- care@hagermanhospice.example
- Hagerman Hospice
Reaching us
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Hospice nurse on call24 hours, every day
- Admissions7 days a week
One number, any hour. After 5 p.m. it rings straight to a hospice nurse.
Tell us about them.
Call or text with any question. A hospice nurse will answer, and nothing is decided until you're ready.