Hospice Southeastern Connecticut Celebrates Spring with its Annual Hospice Southeastern Connecticut Walk 2011

Norwich, CT – Hospice Southeastern Connecticut joins friends and supporters to hold its annual Hospice Southeastern Connecticut Walk at Mohegan Park in Norwich on May 14th, 2011. The Hospice SE CT Walk, now in its 16th year, provides an opportunity for friends and supporters to memorialize loved ones while raising funds and awareness of the programs and services it offers to the community.  The funds raised through the Hospice SE CT Walk will help provide programs that enhance quality of life for terminally ill patients and support families including bereavement care which is open to anyone in southeastern Connecticut. All monies raised, stay in southeastern Connecticut helping our families, friends and neighbors. Events such as the Walk provide approximately ten percent of the funds used by Hospice SE CT annually and allow the agency to provide care to patients and families regardless of their illness or inability to pay.

Hospice SE CT Walk 2011 would be impossible without the tireless efforts of the Walk Committee and other supporters. Our sincere appreciation goes to our Honorary Co-chairs Neil Ryan and Todd Postler of Wireless Zone for all of their energy and assistance. We also thank the Sneaker for a Buck participating businesses: Wireless Zone, Tri Town Foods, Arturo’s Barber/Stylist, Engine 6 Pizza, Irene’s Family Restaurant, Gather, Dr. James Watts DMD and Bank Square Books.

Special thanks to our Sponsors and Partners:

William W. Backus Hospital               
Lawrence & Memorial Hospital
Wireless Zone                                    
Kool 101 FM (Hall Communications)             
Mohegan Sun                                     
The Day
Sayet & Seder Attorneys at Law        
Kostin, Rufkess & Company              
Le Francois Floral & Gifts                  
Brown Jacobson, P.C. Attorneys at Law
Regency Heights of Norwich              
Nutmeg Companies
Eastern Federal Bank                         
Petrowsky Auctioneers, Inc.
American Ambulance                         
Jewett City Savings bank
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 
Holdridge Farms
Old Tymes Restaurant                        
Smith Insurance

About Hospice Southeastern Connecticut
Hospice Southeastern Connecticut provides care in the home and often in skilled nursing facilities for those facing the end of their life, regardless of age, disease or inability to pay.  The organization also provides bereavement services for families in New London County free of charge, regardless of whether the death occurred under hospice care or not.

Hospice Southeastern Connecticut is a community-based, non-profit healthcare organization serving New London County.  It is the only regional hospice affiliated with both Lawrence & Memorial Hospital and The William W. Backus Hospital.  It is Medicare/Medicaid certified, state licensed and CHAP accredited.  Hospice Southeastern Connecticut has been the hospice of choice for over 8,000 families since 1985.