A group of young volunteers helped us show our appreciation to our volunteers in honor of National Volunteer Week, April 17-23. The fifth graders of Girl Scout Troop 7985 at Beryl Heights Elementary in Redondo Beach made cards for us to send to our current Caring House volunteers to thank them for all they do! […]
…featuring the many lives we touched in 2021! We are incredibly proud that, as a community, we measured 2021 in 77 residents and their families, plus 57 active volunteers. (To say we were thrilled to have our volunteers return in May, after not having their help around the house for a year, is an understatement!) […]
Roxanne Arroues has been elected as the newest member of the Caring House Board of Directors, and founding Board Member Dan Hudson has been re-elected after a one-year hiatus. To say that new Board Member Roxanne Arroues is an invested member of the Torrance community is an understatement. She was born at the original Torrance […]
We were honored to welcome more Student Nurse Volunteers from Los Angeles Harbor College’s Nursing Program! Five compassionate and hardworking students helped our caregivers provide peace, comfort, support and dignity to our residents and families during the day and night shifts they worked in November and December. This continues to be a unique opportunity to […]
Beka Malloy, RN, BSN, CCRN, CHPN has been elected to the Caring House Board of Directors. Beka is a member of the Inpatient Palliative Care Team at Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance, where she has worked for the last six years. During that time, she has assisted with the Advanced Joint Commission Certification for […]
Moshanae “Mo” Summerise was introduced to Caring House as a student volunteer while enrolled in Los Angeles Harbor College‘s Nursing Program. She said she knew she was going to love working here the moment she walked in. After she graduated from the nursing program this past Spring, she joined our caregiver team in June, and […]
At Caring House, we allow families to just be. I am honored to be leading Caring House into the future. I’ve dedicated the remainder of my life to the service of others, and our work at Caring House is extremely fulfilling for me. I appreciate all of the support and camaraderie I have experienced in […]
Marianne Ayala, RN, BSN, CHPN has been elected to the Caring House Board of Directors. Marianne is a registered nurse with over 40 years experience in Hospice and Palliative Care. Her most recent position was manager of Providence Little Company of Mary’s inpatient palliative care teams in Torrance and San Pedro. Prior to that, she worked in […]
We are thrilled to share that our Triathlon team came in Second Place out of eight co-ed relay teams! They also had their own personal cheering squad in attendance, including Board Member Ellen Gorbunoff, Volunteer and Resident Assessor Jinny Blandford, and Co-founder/Board Member Dan Hudson (not pictured). Please join us in giving these three Caring […]
Nursing students from Los Angeles Harbor College have joined us at Caring House as student volunteers! We are thrilled to have these compassionate and hardworking nursing students with us to provide our residents with peace, comfort, support and dignity at the end of their lives. Working side-by-side with our staff and volunteers to care for […]