Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice recently hired registered nurse Jackie Snider to care for hospice patients. Jackie was born and raised in the Warsaw/Winona Lake area and graduated from Bethel College. Her desire as a nurse has always been to help people get better, more of a healing sense. Now, on the hospice side of …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Only five Indiana agencies were selected by Deyta Analytics to receive the national honor of being named as a 2015 HHCAHPS Honors Award Recipient. HHCAHPS Honors is a prestigious award recognizing home health care agencies that continuously provide quality care as measured from the patient’s point of view. Award winners were judged on …read more.

Lois Rowe, 80 years old and going strong, retired from DePuy after 31 years.Ten of those years were working before having children. She then returned to work for another 21 years after her children were older. Lois designed labels for hips and knees. She now has eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and has lived all her …read more.

Chelsie’s pregnancy seemed normal and her son Braxton looked like a healthy baby boy when she brought him home. What appeared to be new mother’s anxiety soon became a harsh reality when Chelsie took Braxton to his doctor five times in the first four days. She knew something was wrong and soon doctors discovered that …read more.

The War on Drugs rages on. New “designer drugs” – synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinones – are the latest drug craze to hit the U.S., and law enforcement have a new set of problems to deal with. Typical packaging of synthetic marijuana. (Photo courtesy of AAPCC) Synthetic pot, often referred to as “Spice,” “K2,” or …read more.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and other federal, state and local partners announced the culmination of Project Synergy Phase II, an ongoing effort targeting every level of the dangerous global synthetic designer drug market. Since January, and leading …read more.

Kosciusko Home Care & Hospice Inc. is having a Hospice Volunteer Training on two Tuesdays in August. Training will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 13 and 20. The hospice team, including hospice volunteers, tries to keep patients as pain free and comfortable as possible while providing support for them and their …read more.