Pam MacPherson’s involvement with end-of-life care and advocacy bean in 1964 when she graduated from the Jeanne Mance School of Nursing. Pam later received training as a hospice volunteer and served as Hospice Volunteer Coordinator for the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle County (VNA) from 1988 to 2004, a position to which she brought passion and dedication. After retirement, Pam had more time and energy to give to community resources dealing with quality end-of-life care. Pam has been a hospice volunteer for over thirty years as well as well as a volunteer at the UVM Medical Center in their No One Dies Alone program. She became a vigil volunteer; sitting with those facing end of life alone.
It was during and after these vigils visits, Pam hand wrote about her experiences. She wrote each poem in private journals, describing it as “my safe place for processing; my haven for unfiltered, unedited writing.” Her book of poems will touch a part of your heart, and inspire you to live boldly, love unconditionally and embrace those living while dying. Pam’s poems are a must read for those working with the dying.
Andrew Macpherson serves as Principal at Healthsperien, LLC, a Washington, DC-based health policy consulting firm and as Senior Policy Adviser to several national end-of-life care organizations, including the National Partnership for Hospice Innovation and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).
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