Local pastor joins Hospice Care of Middletown

Butler County residents have about 10 hospice organizations to choose from when they require their services. They all have the word “hospice” in their name, so selecting the agency a patient prefers sometimes can be complicated and frustrating, said Judy Vincent, bereavement/volunteer coordinator at Hospice Care of Middletown.

So recently, Hospice Care of Middletown hired Adam Walters to serve as its community liaison, or as Vincent called him, “the face” of the organization.

Walters’ goal is to spread the agency’s word throughout the community, he said. He has spent the first month on the job talking about Hospice Care of Middletown services to anyone who will listen.

His message: “We are local people serving local people.”

Located at 3909 Central Ave. behind Central Connections, Hospice Care of Middletown is a not-for-profit, full-service hospice serving Butler, Warren, Preble, Hamilton, and Montgomery counties, he said.

He said Hospice Care of Middletown is committed to providing comprehensive and compassionate care and support to patients and their family and friends who are coping with life-limiting illness in the greater Middletown area. The agency, which calls its “Hometown Hospice,” provides care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Vincent said an interdisciplinary team of skilled and on call nurses, home health aides, social worker, chaplain, bereavement counselor, and trained volunteers provide the care.

Walters, 33, a 2000 Madison High School graduate, also serves as pastor at Agape Church in Germantown. While he said he never pushes religion on clients, he uses some of the compassion he learned in his profession.

“You provide them hope at that stage in their life,” said Walters, who lives in Middletown with his wife, Lindsey, and their 14-month-old son. “I have a true passion and I want them to know about the things we offer.”

Vincent agreed. “We all are born, we all will die and we all have a life between. At the end of life, we are here to provide peace, comfort.”

Hospice Care of Middletown was founded in the mid-1980s, joined Hospice Care of Dayton in 1993, pulled out of that organization in 2004, and reformed the following year, Vincent said.

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