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Past Events - 2008

• Jan 11 2008 Doreen Weisberg attends St. Joseph Mercy Oakland seminar entitled Death: Supporting & Understanding the Grieving Process
• Jan 22 2008 JHCN staff takes tour of Hospices of Henry Ford new Lakeland facility
• Jan 23 2008 Michael Walch, Bayla Jacobovitz and Dr. Clara Surowitz speak at Providence Ground Rounds about the special needs of Jewish Orthodox patients during labor and childbirth as part of Shalom Providence
• Feb 4 2008 Gloria Kovak from Samaritan Hospice visited our weekly patient care meeting
• Feb 4 2008 Rabbi Freedman speaks to CPE students at Beaumont about Jewish Spiritual Care
• Feb 7 2008 Rabbi Freedman gives over a morning reflection at the beginning of Hospice of Michigan’s weekly IDG meeting
• Feb 17 – 20 Rabbi Freedman attends National Council of Young Israel annual rabbinic conference
• Feb 20 2008 Rabbi Klainberg addresses students at Bakers College on the topic “The psychology and customs of death according to Jewish tradition”
• Feb 28 2008 Rabbi Jennifer Tisdale gives inservice at Sunrise on Greenlake to care workers and admission staff on death and dying according to Jewish law
• March 5 2008 Rabbi Freedman attends MBOR 4th annual professional and enrichment seminar with Rabbi Steven Kaye
• March 6 2008 Rabbi Freedman attends Henry Ford Health System Palliative Care Teams Palliative Care Networking Dinner
• March 11 2008 Michael and Barb give inservice to JFS community support services on Jewish Hospice, Palliative care and Shalom Providence
• May 12 2008 Rabbi Freedman attends the 2008 Ascension Health Regional Governance meeting at Hyatt Regency in Detroit
• March 13 2008 Rabbi Freedman gives over a morning reflection at the beginning of Hospice of Michigan’s weekly IDG meeting
• March 27 2008 Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network presents “The Same But Different” seminar for healthcare providers and the public
• April 3 2008 Rabbi Hershel Klainberg, Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny and Michael Walch held a lunch and learn about JHCN services to *Huron Valley Hospita*l staff.
• April 17 2008 Rabbi Freedman gives over a morning reflection at the beginning of Hospice of Michigan’s weekly IDG meeting
• April 17 2008 Michael Walch passed out Passover packages of matzah, grape juice and a seder plate to Jewish patients at Huron Valley Hospital and Providence Hospital
• April 18 2008 Barb Haddad and Michael Walch give Shalom Providence patient special Passover packages
• April 25 2008 Rabbi Freedman attends Wayne State University “Hope and Healing Conference”, sponsored by VITAS
• May 12 2008 Rabbi Freedman attended* Ascenion Health Spring 2008 Regional Conference* at Hyatt Regency in Dearborn.
• May 15 2008 Rabbi Freedman speaks to Beaumont Hospice Oncology support group about grief
• May 19 2008 Annmarie Switchulis and Susie Wolpe from Season’s Hospice attend weekly JHCN patient care meeting
• May 21 2008 Michael Walch, Barb Haddad and Rabbi Klainberg give inservice to Samaritan Hospice staff on JHCN services and Lifelinks
• May 22 2008 Rabbi Freedman and Rabbi Klainberg attend the Detroit Medical Halacha and Ethics Yarchei Kallah at the Kollel Institute
• June 6 2008 Michael Walch presents Shavout flower parcels to Jewish patients at Providence Hospital and Huron Valley Hospital
• June 17 2008 Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network holds it’s annual Board of Director’s meeting
• June 24 2008 Rabbi Freedman speaks to CPE students at Beaumont about Jewish Spiritual Care
• June 30 2008 Cindy Goldman the Grief Support Service Manager for Hospice of Michigan attends weekly JHCN patient care meeting
• July 22 2008 Rabbi Hershel Klainberg gave class to students at Schoolcraft school of nursing on treating Jewish patients at End of Life
• July 28 2008 Rose Fenster of St. John Hospice attends weekly JHCN patient care meeting
• Aug 4 2008 Staff members of JHCN meet with Dr. Wineman – Chief Medical Officer of St. John Health. Discussion on Shalom Providence
• Aug 28 2008 Staff members of JHCN meet with Dr. Benjamin Movsas from Hospices of Henry Ford and was given a tour of their new facilities
• Sept 8 2008 Ryan Shurowski from Visiting Nurse Association attends weekly JHCN patient care meeting.
• Sept 10 2008 Michael Walch attends training seminar at Prentice Apartments on Advanced Directives and Hospice.
• Sept 14 2008 Michael Walch attends a seminar at Temple Emanuel on Grief and Loss and Hospice and Palliative Care.
• Sept 15 2008 Angela Gustovic from Odyssey Hospice attends weekly JHCN patient care meeting.
• Sept 17 2008 Rabbi Hershel Klainberg and Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny give high holiday services at Huron Valley Hospital
• Sept 18 2008 Carolyn Cassin from Metropolitan Jewish Health System in New York met with JHCN staff.
• Sept 26 2008 JHCN staff members attend Palliative Care Research Conference at Wayne State University
• Oct 6 2008 Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny gives class to Wayne State University mortuary school
• Oct 7 2008 Members of JHCN staff attend Art of Companioning seminar featuring Alan D. Wolfelt.
• Oct 13 2008 Rabbi Hershel Klainberg give class at Providence Hospital about the laws about kashrus
• Oct 23-24 2008 JHCN staff attends Palliative Care Collaborative second annual conference.
• Oct 26 2008 Rabbi Freedman gives a class at Shaarey Zedek on Death and Dying: Jewish Rituals and Customs
• Oct 27 2008 Rabbi Sara O’Donnell Adler – Staff Chaplain of University of Michigan Health System visits Patient Care Meeting.
• Dec 18 2008 Michael Walch and Barbara Haddad presents on Hospice and Palliative care to Jewish community network professionals

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