On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Hospice. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as housing or lodging and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hospice meaning
- A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order.
- The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life.
- A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill.
Hospice vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Hospice
- The main meaning on this page is: A lodging for pilgrims or the destitute, normally provided by a monastic order. | The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life. | A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill.
- Useful related words include: housing, lodging, living accommodations, medical care.
- Possible Dutch translations are: hospice.
- In the example corpus, hospice often appears in combinations such as: the hospice, hospice and, hospice care.
Context around Hospice
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hospice
- In this selection, "hospice" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, house, community, cransley, northwest, palliative and care stand out and add context to how "hospice" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2022 calvert hospice proudly joined and a hospice uk spokesperson. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hospice" sits close to words such as hung, muhammad and weakness, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hospice
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In June 2022, Calvert Hospice proudly joined the Hospice of the Chesapeake brand family as an affiliate. (17 words)
Louise Szalay is a volunteer for the Desert Valley Hospice Society which sponsors a “Hike for Hospice” fundraiser each year in May. (22 words)
A Hospice UK spokesperson said in a statement: “It is encouraging to see strong cross-party support for hospice care in this debate. (23 words)
He lives at Harling Court, New Street, Ledbury, and said he continued to raise funds for St Michael’s Hospice because five of The Hospice Angels have been cared for at the hospice and also several of his good friends. (40 words)
My mother-in-law in my first marriage, Libby Bradford, inspired by the work of Dame Cecily Saunders who created the first hospice in England and grief pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, brought hospice care to Ohio in the 1970s. (40 words)
The Community Hospice & Palliative Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing philanthropy to enable Community Hospice & Palliative Care to fulfill its mission of being the compassionate guide for end-of-life care in the communities we serve. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
He lives at Harling Court, New Street, Ledbury, and said he continued to raise funds for St Michael’s Hospice because five of The Hospice Angels have been cared for at the hospice and also several of his good friends.
As part of the appeal, the hospice is inviting families to remember the life of someone special by dedicating a star to the hospice’s virtual night sky.
Both groups will be in person at the Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area Community Center at 304 Main St. in Waterville, according to a news release from Jillian Roy, hospice program coordinator.
Circle of Friends Grief Workshop co-ordinator Suzanne Nuorala, left, and Hospice Northwest executive director Cherie Kok, made a presentation on the Circle of Friends Grief Workshops at Hospice Northwest on Friday.
Due to the family's appreciation of Katharine House Hospice and the support they gave to Wendy during Chris' illness, all donations are welcomed to Katharine House Hospice.
Funds raised will help support the specialist care and services provided by the hospice and in the community by the hospice at home team.
In June 2022, Calvert Hospice proudly joined the Hospice of the Chesapeake brand family as an affiliate.
She described how when Anna became ill, the hospice enabled her to live as normal a life as possible, visiting the hospice daily or overnight, when required, for symptom control.
The Community Hospice & Palliative Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing philanthropy to enable Community Hospice & Palliative Care to fulfill its mission of being the compassionate guide for end-of-life care in the communities we serve.
A Hospice UK spokesperson said in a statement: “It is encouraging to see strong cross-party support for hospice care in this debate.
Alternatively Springhill Hospice will collect Christmas trees from homes for a minimum donation of £10 and turn it into wood chippings for the hospice grounds.
Cransley Hospice Trust raises funds to support the development of end of life care services at Cransley Hospice and in the community for end of life patients who wish to stay at home.
Eden Valley Hospice declined to comment either way on the issue, while Hospice at Home West Cumbria offered a neutral perspective, while highlighting their overall stance of treating death 'as a natural process'.
Elaine Middleton, head of corporate fundraising for Pendleside Hospice, said: "Everyone at Pendleside Hospice is so appreciative of the tremendous relationship we have developed with Tesco Extra in Burnley over the past several years.
My mother-in-law in my first marriage, Libby Bradford, inspired by the work of Dame Cecily Saunders who created the first hospice in England and grief pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, brought hospice care to Ohio in the 1970s.
Pictured at the cheque presentation were from L-R: Michael Gallagher, AbbVie; Olive Mc Tague, NW Hospice; Georges El-Damaa, AbbVie; Ursula Smullen, NW Hospice.
Some of the country's great hospice pioneers were born here - including Dr Anne Merriman, who set up the hospice movement in Uganda.
Tara McGinley, 22, strolled all the way from St Andrew's Hospice in Airdrie to Loch Lomond before climbing Ben Lomond in aid of St Andrew's Hospice.
Judy said: “Sometimes people hear the word ‘hospice’ and only assume that it is just a supportive place for someone to leave this life however a hospice is so much more than that.
Louise Szalay is a volunteer for the Desert Valley Hospice Society which sponsors a “Hike for Hospice” fundraiser each year in May.
Common combinations with hospice
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hospice 45×
- hospice and 16×
- hospice care 15×
- hospice in 13×
- house hospice 9×
- hospice of 9×
- hospice is 7×
- children's hospice 7×
- hospice at 6×
- for hospice 6×