The Importance of Naming a Health Care Decision Maker
Wouldn’t you assume that your next of kin—your spouse, your adult children or your closest relative—could make health care decisions for you in the event...
Run With Us To Support Gilchrist Center Baltimore
Join Run GBMC to support Gilchrist Center Baltimore. For over 30 years, Gilchrist Center Baltimore has provided compassionate, end-of-life care to residents of Baltimore City....
Giving Children Control in Their Care Choices
Families facing a terminal prognosis for their child are faced with an impossible choice: to continue treatments—grasping at any hope for a cure even when...
Elder Medical Care Helps Seniors Remain in Their Homes
When you hear the name Gilchrist, you might immediately think of hospice. But one of the most helpful services Gilchrist offers is pre-hospice medical care...
Care Navigators: Connecting You to Services
Through Gilchrist’s Care Counseling service, anyone in the community can reach our trained care navigators to receive support, guidance and help in understanding their options for care—either...
Helping People Heal After a Loss
Grief counseling is not a job that most people would seek. It’s challenging and is one that can either lead to very interesting dinner conversation...
Creating a Safe Environment for Patients on Hospice
Creating a safe environment for patients on hospice and their families is a priority at Gilchrist. Because patients of Gilchrist tend to be either elderly...
The Importance of Gilchrist Volunteers, and Why We Need Them More Than Ever
Living with a serious illness can be an isolating experience. For some of the people we serve, their only regular visitors are their Gilchrist team....
‘Namaste’ On World Diversity Day
Namaste (Nah-mas-tay) My soul honors your soul.I honor the place in you wherethe entire universe resides.I honor the light, love, truth,beauty, and peace within you,because...
Gilchrist Celebrates Exceptional Nurses During National Nurses Week
Each year, National Nurses Week, May 6-12, honors all those exceptional nurses who serve as living legacies of Florence Nightingale’s groundbreaking work to transform nursing...