Love, loss and last wishes fulfilled at Duke HomeCare & Hospice: Staff members regularly make miracles happen
10/31/25 at 03:00 AM
Love, loss and last wishes fulfilled at Duke HomeCare & Hospice: Staff members regularly make miracles happen
Duke Today, Durham, NC; by Working@Duke; 10/29/25
The bell chimed three times at Hock Family Pavilion, and everyone knew what it meant. Duke HomeCare & Hospice nurses and workers stepped into the hallway of Duke’s 12-person inpatient hospice facility, solemnly waiting in silence. Anthony Wilkie, a Duke Clinical Nurse, had been bracing himself for the moment with a mixture of sorrow and humility. When a bell rings three times at Hock Family Pavilion, a patient has just died and a ritual is about to begin. ...