Crossroads Community Hospice hosts 10th walk/run
Published 9:40 am Monday, June 7, 2010
Crossroads Community Hospice, a program of Albert Lea Medical Center — Mayo Health System, will hold its 10th annual Friends of Hospice Walk/Run around Fountain Lake in Albert Lea on Saturday.
Registration begins at 7 a.m. at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds, with the Walk/Run from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Registration/pledge forms are available by calling Crossroads Community Hospice at 377-6393, or can be picked up at HealthReach, KATE radio, Power 96 radio, Wells Clinic, Lake Mills Clinic, Alden Clinic, New Richland Clinic and Kiester Clinic.
Hospice care focuses on quality of life when a cure is no longer possible. It addresses the total physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals, while assisting their loved ones to provide care and support in comfortable, familiar surroundings. Funds raised from the walk/run are used to support bereavement and volunteer services.