Traditional Hospice

12/18/2025

🎄✨ Bringing Compassionate Care Home for the Holidays ✨🎄

This Christmas season, Traditional Home Health Care is proud be locally owned and operated — caring for our neighbors with warmth, compassion, and expert support right where it matters most: at home. 🏡❤️

With five dedicated divisions, we’re honored to meet a wide range of home care needs, helping bring comfort, peace of mind, and healing to families throughout the season and all year long.

🩺 **Our Services Include:**
✔️ Skilled Nursing
✔️ Physical & Occupational Therapy
✔️ Pediatric & Adult Skilled Home Care
✔️ Hospice Services
✔️ Non-Medical Home Care
✔️ Support for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
✔️ Health & Wellness Programs

Every patient’s journey is unique — especially during the holidays. Whether you need short-term recovery care or long-term support, our team is here to help you and your loved ones stay safe, comfortable, and independent at home this Christmas and beyond. 🎁💙

📞 **Learn more today:**
Call **866-472-9456** or visit 🌐 **traditionalhomehealthcare.com**

12/12/2025

Spiritual Coordinator Paul Leonard sat down for a quick interview to discuss how he first got into hospice care, what his role looks like at Traditional, and the value of hospice care.

Paul gives lots of personal insights into the benefits of hospice care.

You can watch the full video on YouTube:

Spiritual Coordinator Paul Leonard shares his thoughts and experiences on ho how he got into hospice, what it's like for him to work at Traditional Hospice a...

12/04/2025

12/04/2025

Traditional Home Health Care is proud to announce Michael Barkley is being promoted to Assistant Director of Clinical Sevices.

Mike has been with THHH for over 13 years as a Physical Therapist. He then took on the role as Therapy Supervisor over the past few years.

Congratulations, Michael, on your new position!

12/02/2025

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Joseph Holleran. Joseph was a cherished friend and supporter of our community and his gentle spirit touched the lives of many. As we mourn his loss, we also celebrate the kindness, warmth, and compassion he brought into the world.

Please join us in honoring his memory and offering our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. You can read his full obituary here:

Joseph Holleran, 86, of Dunmore, died at home on Thanksgiving after a period of health issues. His wife of 46 years, the former Mary Catherine Smith, died in 2014. Born in Dunmore, son of the late …

12/02/2025

Toys for Tots Drive

Let's help make the holidays special for children in need! Your generosity is greatly appreciated, though participation is completely voluntary.

What: Donate new, unwrapped toys for the Toys for Tots program.
Deadline: All donations need to be dropped off to your office by Friday, December 12th.
Drop-Off: Please check if your local office can coordinate a pick-up of your Toys for Tots collection box.

If a pick-up cannot be arranged, offices will need to find a local drop-off box (e.g., at a grocery store, mall, etc.) for your donated toys. All donations will be collected by Toys for Tots at all locations December 15th.

Brought to you by the Fun Committee!

11/27/2025

🧡 Happy Thanksgiving from the Traditional Family of Care 🧡

Today, we give thanks for the incredible patients, families, caregivers, and team members who bring heart and purpose to everything we do.

All of Traditional's divisions are grateful for the trust you place in us to care for you and your loved ones—especially during life’s most meaningful moments.

Wishing you a day filled with comfort, gratitude, and the warmth of home. 🦃🍁
Happy Thanksgiving!

11/26/2025

Here's an array of goodies the volunteers have collected, made and purchased to distribute to our patients for Thanksgiving.

We would like to give special thanks to our tireless Volunteers who give so much of themselves for our patients!

11/26/2025

Thanksgiving Day Prayers

You are my God, I give you thanks;
my God, I offer you praise.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
his mercy endures forever.
(Psalm 118: 28-29)

Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;
with the lyre make music to our God,
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
provides rain for the earth, makes grass sprout on the mountains,
Who gives animals their food
and young ravens what they cry for.
(Psalm 147: 7-9)

11/25/2025

Our Hospice Volunteers are busy assembling and delivering an assortment of goodies for our patients and nursing homes in the area.

Here are some gift bags and handmade soaps that our volunteers will be hand delivering before Thanksgiving!

11/21/2025

In recognition of Hospice Month, we have this Employee Spotlight featuring our Volunteer Coordinator, Kellie S.!

How did you get into hospice/healthcare?

I have had the great opportunity to work with the older population throughout most of my career; first as an audiologist and then as a coordinator and director for services that provide assistance in areas such as transportation and companion programs. One program that I coordinated matched seniors with senior Volunteers to provide them with increased socialization and assistance. This led me to becoming interested in helping hospice patients through the Volunteer program.

What do you do for Traditional and what does a typical workday look like to you?

As the Volunteer Coordinator for Traditional Hospice, I recruit, interview, train, and supervise our hospice Volunteers who support our hospice patients and their families. One of the many factors that makes hospice unique in healthcare is its Volunteers, since they are required to be a part of hospice care. Volunteers provide non-medical support and bring a heartfelt energy, love, dedication and compassion that enhances the professional skills of the rest of the patient care team. I look for individuals who are dependable, respectful, patient, caring and who are excellent communicators and good listeners. As Volunteers we provide a unique kind of caring and point of view in hospice care, because we are able to focus on providing patients with social and emotional support. An important part of my job is to match a patient with a volunteer. I meet with the patient/family to determine what their needs are. A Volunteer can provide extra socialization and can sit with a patient to give the family/caregiver the opportunity to attend their own medical appointments, to go shopping, or to just have a much needed break. I accompany the Volunteer to the first visit with a patient and provide ongoing support and training to Volunteers. Volunteers help to brighten and celebrate the holidays and patient birthdays by delivering gifts and goodies to patients and their families. I also train Volunteers to assist in the office to support our hospice staff.

I enjoy my work at Traditional because it is beyond rewarding to be able to support patients with a limited life expectancy. We are here to celebrate the patients, honor their lives, and to provide them with comfort and dignity. The part of my job that I enjoy most is when I have the opportunity to visit with a patient. A visit might look like playing music that the patient enjoys, singing together, playing a game, reading to the patient, writing cards or letters, having a listening ear to hear cherished patient stories, or simply sitting by the patient to hold his/her hand. My job duties and responsibilities vary depending on the day. I am a part of the patient Interdisciplinary Team so when a patient would like a Volunteer, I create a care plan for Volunteer visits and record the visits and times that the Volunteers spend with patients. I like that I am not doing the same thing every day. My administrative duties allow me to be in our Dunmore office daily, and then I am on the road the rest of the time to support the patients and Volunteers.

Why should someone consider getting into hospice care?

Working in hospice care has been the most rewarding position that I have had. I would highly recommend this work to someone who is a very caring person and who wants to make a significant difference at a time in a person's life when compassion and kindness are greatly needed. Hospice care not only helps patients, but you also are able to provide physical, social, and emotional support to their families.

What are your thoughts on working with Traditional?

Traditional is the best healthcare agency to be a part of and has been such a blessing in my life. I
truly enjoy going to work each and every day because of the people there and the great support that they provide to me. I think that those that choose to work in hospice are especially caring individuals which is apparent in the work environment at Traditional. The staff is like family to me.

11/20/2025

Thanks to our generous staff for helping make this year's Feed a Friend program benefitting United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania (UNC) a success!