Left to Right: Crystal Morrow, Registered Nurse, Elara Caring Hospice; and Dana Naumann, Bereavement Care Coordinator, Langeland Family Funeral Homes Burial & Cremation Services.
August 2021
Crystal Morrow
Registered Nurse - Elara Caring Hospice
Crystal Morrow received two nominations one by Kellee Banaag and another by Christine Moore for the Langeland Hospice Caregiver Award.
Crystal received the Hospice Caregiver Award for August.
Thank you Crystal for all you do as an exceptional Caregiver and we especially recognize how you have gone above and beyond during the pandemic.
Crystal received The Crystal Heart Award and a gift card to be used for whatever she would like.
I would like to nominate Crystal Morrow for the Hospice Caregiver Award. Crystal has done an outstanding job with her patients/families as well as facilities. I have received so many compliments with the care that Crystal has provided by her compassion, team-work and integrity, that shows through the care that she has provided. There are too many examples to share, in which she has built these relationships and trust with our patients/families. She handles all situations with a joyful heart and such grace it is no surprise.
-Kellee Banaag
Crystal Morrow was my mother’s primary nurse from March through Mom’s passing on May 10th. During March and the first half of April Mom’s health improved to the point that we thought she would be able to come off of hospice, but a sudden health setback changed all that.
My mother was a fiercely independent woman with strong ideas of what she was or was not going to do. Crystal gained my mother’s love, trust and confidence from the beginning and through the many health ups and downs Mom experienced during their time together.
One of the things my mom absolutely refused to take was morphine. Her late husband had taken it in his own end days, and I am sure Mom equated morphine with imminent death. My sister and I could not convince her that a very small dose would ease her pain, nothing more.
Toward the end, when Mom’s pain was not able to be managed with her other medications, Crystal was able to persuade her to give the morphine a try. When Mom realized it helped her, but didn’t incapacitate her, she agreed to continue to take it as needed, and that really helped ease her last days with us.
Mom was having daily nurse visits for the last 3 weeks of her life, and other nurses besides Crystal would sometimes visit. It just happened that the morning of my mom’s passing, Crystal was on the schedule to see her. Crystal’s caring and compassion for us and for Mom as she bathed and dressed Mom was a blessing to us at a terribly sad time.
Our last weeks with our mother was enhanced greatly by Crystal’s care and counsel.
-Christine Moore