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| CMF will unveil new garden planted for hospice patients |
| By dailyrepublic.com |
| Published: 05/30/2018 |
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VACAVILLE — A vision decades in the making will become a permanent fixture at California Medical Facility when a garden designed for the prison’s hospice unit is unveiled Friday. The hospice’s history began in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was ravaging communities, including prisons. Clinicians and correctional staff created an HIV treatment facility at CMF to care for rapidly increasing numbers of infected patients. Nancy Jakes and Bob Alexander, students of noted psychiatrist and author of “On Death and Dying,” Elizabeth Kubler Ross, began volunteering in the unit, spending time with dying inmates. Their work, combined with the medical expertise and compassion of CMF staff, inspired the creation of the nation’s first licensed prison hospice. Read More. |
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