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Archive Home > 2004 > February > 01 > Helping hands

Helping hands

Hospice provides support, care to terminally ill patients, families

By Kelly Kearsley / The Bulletin
February 1, 2004

On a snowy Central Oregon morning, hospice nurse Geia Cooper piloted her Subaru over the ruts of a southern Deschutes County dirt road to the home of Jim Yager, a retired rancher and La Pine native. He jokes that he is too stubborn to die.

"They don't want me up there," Yager, 79,....

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