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BridgesHome Health Care
BridgesHome Health Care is a joint venture of Hospice of Medina County and Medina General Hospital. The mission is to provide health care that assists patients to achieve the highest level of independence through coordinated planning and responsiveness to each person's needs. BridgesHome serves Medina County and adjacent areas of Cuyahoga, Lorain, Summit, and Wayne counties.

Medina General Hospital

Serving the community since 1944, the hospital has 118 beds, with more than 1,000 employees (the seventh largest employer in Medina County) and 44 departments that provide numerous services both internally and within the community. MGH also has a satellite facility, the Brunswick Medical Care Center which offers a variety of medical services including an Immediate Care Center, physician offices, radiology services including mammography, and physical and occupational therapy services.

WRH Health Systems
WRH Health System (formerly Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital) is an acute-care hospital located in Wadsworth, Ohio. The hospital has 113-beds, more than 150 medical staff members, and over 400 employees.

United Way of Medina County
The mission of the United Way of Medina County is to strengthen the community by developing resources to meet human needs.

Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care
The mission of the Ohio Hospice & Palliative Care Organization is to promote the development and delivery of the highest quality end-of-life care through advocacy of hospice philosophy.

United Way of Medina County
The mission of the United Way of Medina County is to strengthen the community by developing resources to meet human needs

Wadsworth Rittman Hospital
Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital is an acute-care hospital located in Wadsworth (Medina County) Ohio. It has 113-beds, more than 150 medical staff members, and over 400 employees.

Medina Chamber of Commerce
The Medina Area Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary organization of the business community. The Chamber is a not-for-profit, taxpaying organization. It unites hundreds of business and professional firms, thus creating a unique central agency working to improve business and build a better community.

Americans Better Care of Dying
The Americans for Better Care of the Dying Web site is dedicated to advocacy for better support and care systems for the seriously ill. It contains news updates, a resource directory and information on events

Hospice Foundation of America
Hospice Foundation of America is a non-profit, grassroots foundation dedicated to providing leadership in the application of hospice principles, informing the public about end-of-life care, and training healthcare workers and the families they serve in issues related to loss.

Joint Commission
The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits nearly 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission is the nation’s predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.

Last Acts

Last Acts’ goal is to bring death related issues out in the open and help individuals and organizations pursue better ways to care for the dying. They believe in palliative care, which focuses on ways to ease pain and make life better for people who are dying and their loved ones. Palliative care means taking care of the whole personbody, mind, spiritheart and soul. It looks at death and dying as something natural and personal.

National Hospice and Palliative Care
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.

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