The Gilchrist Blog
The goal of our blog is to provide you with comprehensive and inspiring information about issues that are important to our continuum of care. We also share the latest news about Gilchrist, highlight our work in the community, promote upcoming events, provide program-specific information and offer ways you can help – either by volunteering or fundraising.
A Calling to Care: Kass Scholarship Recipient Elvin Martinez Is Giving Back to the Community That Helped Him
For Elvin Martinez, nursing has never been about medicine alone. It’s about sitting beside someone who feels alone. Offering a warm blanket. Bringing a cup...
What Is Respite Care? Giving Caregivers Time to Rest and Recharge
Caring for someone you love can be incredibly meaningful, but it can also be physically and emotionally demanding. Doctor’s appointments, medications, personal care, household responsibilities,...
The Geography of Loss and Why the Grieving Brain Must Rewrite Its Map
Recently, my work with Gilchrist became deeply personal when I lost my grandfather to cancer. Suddenly, I wasn’t just standing at the bedside as a...
Three Milestones, One Mission: Celebrating the Anniversaries of Gilchrist’s Care Centers
For more than 30 years, Gilchrist has been Maryland’s leading nonprofit provider of serious illness and end-of-life care. Through geriatric, palliative, hospice, and grief care,...
Finding Purpose at Doey’s House: Volunteer Teresa Matthews Gives the Gift of Presence
When Teresa Matthews retired after a 30-year career managing convenience stores, she knew one thing for certain: retirement wasn’t going to be about slowing down....
Team Up with Gilchrist at the 41st Annual Taste of Howard County
This fall, Howard County is coming together for great food, great company, and a great cause. On Sunday, October 11, Gilchrist will host the 41st...
Home Where He Wanted to Be: How The Lifecare Institute Helped Thomas Harbach Spend His Final Months Surrounded by Family
For nearly a century, Thomas Richard Harbach approached life with curiosity, determination, and devotion to his family. Thomas spent more than three decades at NASA’s...
A Lifetime of Service: Marine Veteran Margaret Deavers Honored at Home
For Margaret Deavers, service has always been a way of life. Born Margaret Yirka in Maryland, she graduated from Seton High School. Three years later,...
A Full-Circle Journey: From Gilchrist Volunteer to Geriatric Care Patient
For 15 years, Elaine Gardner gave her time, compassion, and unmistakable sense of humor to Gilchrist patients and families. Today, at age 90, she is...
Across Continents, A Shared Mission of Care: Asia’s Story of Courage and Hope
For more than 15 years, Gilchrist’s partnership with the Palliative Care Program at Nkoaranga Lutheran Hospital in northern Tanzania has connected two communities thousands of...
