Hospice of Hancock County works in partnership with other health care organizations in the region supporting the needs of our communities.

  • Community Health and Counseling Services
    Home Care and Hospice Program
    415 Water Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605
    207-667-3626
  • Hancock County HomeCare and Hospice Services
    PO Box 156, Blue Hill, ME 04614
    207-374-5510
  • New Hope Hospice
    PO Box 757, East Holden, ME 04429
    207-843-7521

The following community organizations provide transportation, help with chores, and care services for elderly and chronically ill neighbors.

  • Island Connections
    15 Eagle Lake Road, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
    207-288-4457
     

  • NeighborCare
    P.O. Box 370, Blue Hill, ME  04614
    207-374-5170 
     

  • Faith in Action Community Connections
    P.O. Box 5072, Ellsworth, ME  04605
    207-664-6016

     Hospice of Hancock County maintains an extensive library that includes information on Hospice Care Bereavement, Alzheimer's Disease, Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Caregiving and end-of-life philosophy. Hospice of Hancock County recommends the following books and videos that are available at our lending library at 14 McKenzie Avenue in Ellsworth.
A Graceful Passage: Notes on the Freedom to Live or Die by Arnold R. Beisser, MD (New York: Bantam Books, 1991).

Beyond Grief by Carol Staudacher ( Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Pub., 1987).

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette (New York: Avon, 1988).

Companion Through the Darkness by Stephanie Ericsson ( New York: Harper Collins, 1993).

Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth and the End of Life by Dr. Ira Byock (New York: Riverhead Books, 1997).

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communication Of the Dying by Maggie Callahan & Patricia Kelley (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).

Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience by Barbara Karnes (Kansas: Barbara Karnes private printing, 1995).

How Can I Help by Ram Dass (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985).

How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Colgrove, Bloomfield & McWilliams (Los Angeles: Prelude Press, 1991).

"I Don't Know What to Say": How to Help and Support Someone Who is Dying by Robert Buckman, MD (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).

I'm With You Now by Catherine M. Ray (New York: Bantom Books, 1997).

Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach us to Live by Marie de Hennezel (New York: Vintage Books, 1997).

Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD (New York: Riverhead Books, 1996).

Lifetimes: The beautiful way to explain death to children by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen (New York: Bantam Books, 1983).

Living Our Dying: A way to the sacred in everyday life by Joseph Sharp ( New York: Hyperion, 1996).

Love Has no Fear: One couple's search for healing by Joan Peterson (VA: Merkaba Press, 1997).

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ( New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1984).

Morrie: In His Own Words by Morrie Schwartz (New York: Walker & Co., 1996).

One Death & Dying (and other books) by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (New York: MacMillan, 1969).

Stories and Reflections on Service by Ram Dass (New York: Knopf, 1991).

The Dying Time: Practical Wisdom for the Dying & Their Caregivers by Joan Furman, RN and David McNabb (New York: Harmony Books, 1997).

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche (New York: Harper Collins, 1994).

Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying (and other Books) by Stephen Levine (New York: Anchor Books, 1989).

Being There
Steel Magnolias
Philadelphia

American Hospital Association Circle of Life Award
Americans for Better Care of the Dying
Community-State Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care
Dying Well
Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium
End-of-Life Physician Education Resource Center
Growth House: Guide to Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement and EOL
Innovations in End-of-Life Care
Last Acts
On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying
Project on Death in America
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
The RAND Center to Improve Care of the Dying
Supportive Care of the Dying

     Hospice of Hancock County often obtains books at reduced prices for the community to purchase. Currently, Hospice of Hancock County has the following books available for sale that can be purchased at the office: 14 McKenzie Avenue, Ellsworth, Maine.

Bereaved Children And Teens - A support guide for parents and professionals by Earl A. Grollman.
Your cost: $12.00 paperback

Living When A Loved One Has Died - by Earl A. Grollman
Your cost: $8.00 paperback

Talking About Death - A dialogue between parent and child by Earl A. Grollman.
Your cost: $12.00 paperback