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If you are there for a person in his final hours and registered nurse worked at
of his final days, you have an incredible opportunity GBMC’s NICU (neo-natal intensive care
unit) for the past 15 years. She loved
“to give a person strength and unconditional love her job but says it was the Yad Hashem
to help him focus on the things he did accomplish. that led her to her current position at
Gilchrist.
Those moments of happiness, tranquility,
“I didn’t have a program manage-
and belonging that you can give someone ment degree, but I knew I had the right
kind of experience,” says Mrs. Lasson,
as his soul transitions from this world to who noticed the job on the GBMC web-
the next, I would suggest, is chesed shel emes. site. She rewrote her resume’s cover let-
ter to highlight her auxiliary volunteer
way to alleviating some of the otherwise who reside in assisted living and nurs- experience at Levindale as well as the
five trips to Israel that she led for JWRP
”overwhelming stress associated with ing home facilities in Owings Mills, (Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project).
the care of seriously ill patients. I Towson, Pikesville, and Hunt Valley. “A “As Jewish liaison for Gilchrist, I can
use my natural talents to educate the
believe that they are providing critical lot of the people I have seen so far are Hospice about the Jewish community
and educate the Jewish community
services for our community.” Other loosely connected with the Jewish com- about the Hospice.”
members of the Jewish Hospice munity and have no rabbi,” says Rabbi This unique Jewish program at
Gilchrist and the expansion were made
Program’s Advisory Board are Rabbi Blackman, “so I’ve become their rabbi possible through a generous gift from
the Judi and Steven B. Fader Family
Mitchell Wohlberg and Mr. Allan to link them to the community and to Foundation, together with funding
commitments from numerous compa-
Gibber. their traditions.” nies, foundations, and organizations,
including the Harry and Jeannette
For families that have no rabbi, ◆◆◆
Rabbi Aaron Blackman, who was pres- Chaya Lasson’s love of people and
ent at the training, is the new Gilchrist her leadership skills came together in
chaplain servicing hospice patients her new position. The Baltimore native
94 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
of his final days, you have an incredible opportunity GBMC’s NICU (neo-natal intensive care
unit) for the past 15 years. She loved
“to give a person strength and unconditional love her job but says it was the Yad Hashem
to help him focus on the things he did accomplish. that led her to her current position at
Gilchrist.
Those moments of happiness, tranquility,
“I didn’t have a program manage-
and belonging that you can give someone ment degree, but I knew I had the right
kind of experience,” says Mrs. Lasson,
as his soul transitions from this world to who noticed the job on the GBMC web-
the next, I would suggest, is chesed shel emes. site. She rewrote her resume’s cover let-
ter to highlight her auxiliary volunteer
way to alleviating some of the otherwise who reside in assisted living and nurs- experience at Levindale as well as the
five trips to Israel that she led for JWRP
”overwhelming stress associated with ing home facilities in Owings Mills, (Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project).
the care of seriously ill patients. I Towson, Pikesville, and Hunt Valley. “A “As Jewish liaison for Gilchrist, I can
use my natural talents to educate the
believe that they are providing critical lot of the people I have seen so far are Hospice about the Jewish community
and educate the Jewish community
services for our community.” Other loosely connected with the Jewish com- about the Hospice.”
members of the Jewish Hospice munity and have no rabbi,” says Rabbi This unique Jewish program at
Gilchrist and the expansion were made
Program’s Advisory Board are Rabbi Blackman, “so I’ve become their rabbi possible through a generous gift from
the Judi and Steven B. Fader Family
Mitchell Wohlberg and Mr. Allan to link them to the community and to Foundation, together with funding
commitments from numerous compa-
Gibber. their traditions.” nies, foundations, and organizations,
including the Harry and Jeannette
For families that have no rabbi, ◆◆◆
Rabbi Aaron Blackman, who was pres- Chaya Lasson’s love of people and
ent at the training, is the new Gilchrist her leadership skills came together in
chaplain servicing hospice patients her new position. The Baltimore native
94 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
