Samaritan Health Officer Talks Living Will With Moorestown Rotary

MOORESTOWN, NJ - Chris Rollins, Chief Development Officer of Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice, recently visited the Moorestown Rotary Breakfast Club.

Rollins shared copies of “Five Wishes” with club members and encouraged them to use the living will as a conversation starter with their family members and healthcare providers. He also suggested they discuss and document their end-of-life care plans.

“Five Wishes” is a legal advance directive document designed to all adults, regardless of age or health, to consider and document how they want to be cared for at the end of life. It is America’s most popular living will with more than 30 million copies in circulation.

Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, independent organization, founded in Moorestown in 1980. The regional leader for hospice care, palliative medicine, grief support and counseling, end-of-life education, and advocacy serves people in South Jersey who are coping with the stresses of aging, serious illness or grief in their homes, assisted-living, or nursing home communities.

They also use two inpatient hospice centers: The Samaritan Center at Mt. Holly and The Samaritan Center at Voorhees. Samaritan provides exceptional care to promote comfort, dignity, and quality of life for those living with serious illness or grief.

They care for adults in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties. In addition to hospice services covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers, Samaritan’s Family of Services also provides nearly $1 million each year in essential, yet un- or under-reimbursed services through generous community support, including music and massage therapy, grief support, Veterans Hospice, and community education and outreach.

Samaritan is accredited by The Joint Commission; a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO); the Home Care & Hospice Association of New Jersey; and is a four-star-level hospice in NHPCO’s We Honor Veterans program, created in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

For more information – including free copies of Five Wishes, and ways in which you can support Samaritan’s charitable mission, visit www.SamaritanNJ.org.

One way to support Samaritan’s charitable mission is at the Samaritan’s Feb. 9 gala featuring MC Jon Runyan.

The Rotary Breakfast meetings are held every Wednesday morning at 7:15 a.m. at the Moorestown Community House located at 16 East Main Street. Guests are welcome to arrive 15 minutes early and have a cup of coffee to socialize before the meeting begins.

Anyone interested in attending the Rotary Social or joining the Rotary Club should contact Past President and Board Member Scott Aschoff at scott.aschoff@icloud.com.

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