45 Years of Compassionate Care…Thanks to You!

March 10, 2023

This year marks our 45th anniversary of providing expert and compassionate care to individuals who are experiencing serious illness and going through their end-of life journey.

Today, as Bluegrass Care Navigators, we apply our deep expertise and best practices in hospice care to help people through many different health care challenges in an expanding variety of ways. But we don’t do this alone.


It is thanks to the support from our Caring Community that we continue to grow.


“The world would be a darker place without the light that Bluegrass Care Navigators’ team brings to those that need it.”


When Connie’s aunt began to reach the final stages of her illness, Connie’s care focus shifted to providing her aunt with the quality of life and level of comfort that she deserved.


So, Connie turned to Bluegrass Care Navigators confidently knowing that we would provide compassionate care and help make her aunt’s transition peaceful and dignified.


Your generous support for our mission is what makes it possible for us to shine our light on our patients, and their families, as they approach their end-of-life journey.


Connie’s note of thanks…


This was not my first engagement with Bluegrass Care Navigators. Both my mother and father were cared for in the early 2000s.

The entire team contributed greatly to my aunt’s quality of life in her final months. It gave me great comfort to know that her hospice team was looking out for her in every way.


The services Bluegrass Care Navigators provides are lifechanging in that they allow the patient dignity to live their final days as they choose and give the family support to endure it. My goal was to keep my aunt comfortable, and I believe we accomplished that.


“Thank you” does not adequately convey my appreciation.


For the last 45 years, families across the Commonwealth and beyond have come to see Bluegrass Care Navigators as a steadfast and trusted friend providing expert, compassionate care to generations of loved ones.


As we commemorate this milestone together, we hope that you will consider helping us continue to be the leader in delivering comforting care at the right time by making a special gift today, so that our team may reach more patients and achieve new levels of patient-centered care for generations to come.


Thank you for helping us provide those at the end of their lives with the comfort and dignity that we all deserve.

www.bgcarenav.org/donate

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