Alive Hospice continued its celebration of National Hospice Month this week with help from Murfreesboro Mayor Tommy Bragg. Mayor Bragg met with Alive Hospice representatives at Murfreesboro City Hall to sign a proclamation in honor of hospice caregivers.

“We certainly appreciate the good works Alive Hospice does in our community day in and day out,” Mayor Bragg said. “This proclamation is one way for us to show that appreciation.”

The proclamation recognized hospice caregivers “for their dedication to the ideals that make their services such a valued part of our community.” Additionally, the mayor called upon the City of Murfreesboro “to join us in so honoring the organization’s anniversary month.” (Alive Hospice was founded in November 1975, the year after the nation’s first hospice program was established in Connecticut.)

Alive Hospice’s Murfreesboro office, located on Medical Center Parkway, serves as the home base for a team of caregivers that provide hospice care to patients and their families in five counties (Rutherford, Bedford, Cannon, Coffee and DeKalb). Additionally, the agency’s Murfreesboro office has a full-time grief counselor who offers individual counseling for adults and children as well as grief support groups throughout the year.

Pictured: Faye Northcutt-Knox, Alive Hospice’s Murfreesboro marketing representative; Alive Hospice Board Member and Murfreesboro resident Faye Johnson; Murfreesboro Mayor Tommy Bragg; Pam Barnes, clinical director of the agency’s Murfreesboro team; and Alive Hospice President and CEO Jan Jones.