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“The word hospice can be difficult to translate into Spanish.
“It has a lot of meanings, and most are not positive,” said Wenonoa Spivak, who is new to the staff at Willamette Valley Hospice. “One could mean where the disabled, elderly and mentally ill go to die, like an asylum.”
It is Spivak’s job to change the connotation in the local Hispanic community….”
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