Catholic Hospice provides Jewish end of life care

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By David A. Schwartz, Staff Writer
1:20 p.m. EDT, June 25, 2013

In a quiet area on the 5th floor of Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale and at St. Catherine's Rehabilitation Hospital in Hialeah Gardens, rabbis minister to dying Jewish patients.

Rabbis from Catholic Hospice have been serving patients in the L'chaim Jewish Hospice program for 10 years.

"We recognized a need because of the large Jewish population in South Florida," said Gael Silverman, director of professional services for L'chaim Jewish Hospice.

Catholic Hospice plans to open two facilities that will care for Jewish patients. One facility will be in western Broward County and the other will be in southern Miami-Dade County. The program also plans to add several rabbis who will serve assigned areas.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/news/broward-county-news/fl-jjbs-hospice-0627-20130625,0,648753.story

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1. And the good news just keeps on coming!

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2. It's all around us.