Bereavement Professional

Hi Christy,

Do you have any examples of the cards that were made with the Cricut or Cricut Joy?

Thank you,

Traci Hawthorne

Manager of Volunteer Services

We Honor Veterans Coordinator

Heart of Hospice – Bayou Region

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Hello, Kendra!  Like Karen, our Hospice creates our own cards.  We use a local printer and feel good about supporting a community business.  We have 4 different designs and messages. The artwork for each card was done by one of our Hospice patients, who was an extremely talented artist.  Her parents granted us permission to use her artwork.  On the back of each card, the artist is recognized and thanked, which serves as an ongoing tribute to her and her family.  All in all, we think these cards are more meaningful than anything "store bought." We are lucky to have known this artist and her family.

Jodi Bevevino, Bereavement Coordinator

                                   An outreach of Hospice of Warren County               

                This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed.  If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering e-mail to the intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.  If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify my office by telephone at 814-723-2455 extension 3953.  Thank you.

For our publications we mainly use an internal printing service thus we have sympathy cards and all of our other mailings (letters and newsletters) come from them. We have the IDG team send a group-signed condolence card (albeit during COVID we are having one volunteer do so on behalf of the team) and then following that we send a letter introducing the program, signed by the bereavement team.

Joelle Osterhaus, MSW, LCSW, LICSW, ACHP-SW (she/her)
KPNW Hospice & Palliative Care Psychosocial Services Manager

KPNW Interim Palliative Care Operations Manager

Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Continuing Care Services
2701 NW Vaughn St., Ste. 140
Portland, OR 97210-5344

Cell Phone: (503) 312-0819
Main Office: (503) 499-5200 or (800)448-0838

Fax: (503) 499-5535

NOTICE TO RECIPIENT:  If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents.  If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them.  Thank you.

We worked with our Marketing department to create both cards and mailings (initial, 3, 6, 9, 12 mo and holiday) and have them printed in house.  They turned out beautifully and we've gotten a lot of nice feedback.  And it's much less expensive (if you have access to marketing and a print shop). 

Good luck!