Community Hospice & Health Services provides hospice and palliative care for adults, pediatrics, and outpatient mental health counseling for adults & children.

MONTEREY, CA, UNITED STATES, November 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- SideBar: Optimism in Action podcast, sponsored by KAZU 90.3 and Monterey College of Law, welcomes Monica Ojcius, Director of Strategic Development at Community Hospice, Inc. Community Hospice & Health Services provides end-of-life care with compassion and dignity and is still evolving to add to the continuum of care that people need by investing in programs that support community members in critical and meaningful ways. Monica Ojcius, Director of Strategic Development, discusses serving more than 2,500 patients and families each year, providing hospice and palliative care for adults and pediatrics, and outpatient mental health counseling for adults and children.

Over the past 45 years, Community Hospice & Health Services has grown from humble beginnings as a small all volunteer-based hospice organization serving Stanislaus County. Programs today include hospice care, supportive palliative care, pediatrics care programs, bereavement support for hospice families, outpatient mental health counseling, school-based counseling, and Camp Wokini, a youth grief camp formerly known as Camp Erin of the Central Valley. The organization also has a retail operations division including seven Hope Chest Thrift Stores throughout the Central Valley. Services are now provided in Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Merced, Calaveras, Mariposa, Tuolumne, and parts of Contra Costa, Sacramento, Alameda, and Santa Clara counties. For more information, go to https://hospiceheart.org.

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