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LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Lynn Jones, Golden Rule Hospice

September 19, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Lynn Jones, Golden Rule Hospice

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LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Lynn Jones, Golden Rule Hospice (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 522)

Lynn Jones, Golden Rule Hospice, joined host John Ray LIVE at the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Grand Opening Celebration. Lynn shared the work Golden Rule does serving hospice patients at home throughout all of North Fulton. She discussed the services they offer, why she finds membership in GNFCC so valuable, and much more.

This show was originally broadcast live from the Grand Opening celebration and ribbon cutting of the new offices of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce at the 10000 Building at Avalon in Alpharetta, Georgia, on August 18, 2022.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Lynn Jones, Golden Rule Hospice

Golden Rule Hospice is the vision of two seasoned hospice veterans operating together as a single provider. Our focus is on respecting the dignity and choices of our patients and their caregivers while providing compassionate support.

They have decades of experience and have provided quality service to thousands of patients in Alpharetta and Atlanta. They have encountered a wide range of situations and are trained and equipped to handle diverse scenarios.
Their company is staffed with experienced personnel who have dedicated their life’s work to the care of hospice patients.
They are the only area hospice to offer five levels of care including Transitional Care. That means that they surpass the support provided by 90% of area hospices in the final 7 days of life.
They are a local company, not a national one. That means that their staff—including physicians and owners—are available to you anytime you have questions or concerns.
Golden Rule’s approach is holistic, incorporating physical, emotional, and spiritual support. They respect the choices and dignity of patients and caregivers and are dedicated to fulfilling those choices with compassion.

Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Lynn Jones’ LinkedIn

Questions and Topics in the Interview:

About Golden Rule Hospice
Services they offer
Long-term hospice
GNFCC

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked-from-scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

Rachel Donnelly, Black Dress Consultants

August 10, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Rachel Donnelly, Black Dress Consultants

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Rachel Donnelly, Black Dress Consultants (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 374)

Rachel Donnelly, founder of Black Dress Consultants, joined host John Ray to share the work her consulting firm does in end-of-life concierge and after-loss services. Rachel saw a need for support as families and individuals face end-of-life and after-loss decisions at a time they are more focused on family and grieving. Her consultancy fills the gap, offering practical services and assistance navigating the after-loss maze of tasks. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Black Dress Consultants

Black Dress Consultants is an end-of-life concierge and consulting firm that helps families strategically manage the administrative and logistical tasks of legacy planning and organization, after loss and everything in between while also integrating your family values and traditions. They provide personalized solutions for life’s transitions giving you and your family the space to live worry-free and grieve peacefully.

They are here to help guide you through decisions, tasks, and endless to-dos so that you have the space to grieve. Their goal is to provide solutions for life’s transitions while also integrating what’s important to you and your family. Custom services available.

Disclaimer: They are not attorneys, financial advisors, or CPAs. However, they do partner with these resources, when needed, to ensure that every task that Black Dress completes for you is under their advice. If you do not have an estate attorney or financial advisor and your estate requires or would benefit from these resources, they are happy to connect you with their network of seasoned professionals.

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Rachel Donnelly, Founder and CEO, Black Dress Consultants

After many experiences with loss, including the death of her parents at a young age, Rachel founded Black Dress Consultants, a consulting firm that helps individuals and families manage the unavoidable tasks and logistics of after loss and end-of-life.

Rachel is also a fundraiser extraordinaire, having worked in higher education fundraising for Agnes Scott College, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. Rachel serves on the Board of Directors on Love Not Lost, an Atlanta non-profit that provides grief tools and free photography sessions for families facing terminal diagnoses.

Rachel lives in Decatur with her husband Zack with their two kids, Finn and Roane.

Questions and Topics in This Interview

Tell us a little bit about your background. How did your earlier career path relate to or inspire your current work in the space around helping families wrap up after the loss of a loved one?
What was the motivation behind the creation of Black Dress Consultants?
Can you tell us about your services?
You mentioned that there are several blind spots in end-of-life planning. Can you tell us about a few?
In your experience working with families, and considering all the services you offer, what do they need the most help navigating?
Tell us about how your clients find you and what your role is in the complex project of settling an estate and wrapping up the details. W
How does what you do differentiate you from or overlap with the legal and financial aspects of settling an estate?
What’s one of the most unique or memorable experiences you’ve had working with families after a loss?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray, and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Elder Care

June 6, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Elder Care

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Elder Care

This week we hosted experts whose companies address the care needs of our elderly population. We hosted Maria de la Guardia, of Assisted Living Locators, Chris Foster, of LivHome, and Blaine Warketine, of Vimty.

Assisted Living Locators is a company that provides a free service for families in search of an assisted living facility for their loved one. The company forms relationships with facilities around the community, getting to know them, the services they provide, costs, etc. They then get to know the families who connect with them seeking help through an interview process to be better able to recommend a facility based on location, type of services available, living environment, cost, etc.

We talked about the fact that many online services focus mainly on a few facilities with which they have financial arrangements, leaving out many options in the area that could potentially be a better fit for a given patient. Once they have contact information for the family it is shared with other services who then assail the family with calls and emails trying to sell them on centers they represent. Maria shared some questions families should ask when they contact an online service that purports to be the facility they think they’re contacting.

LivHome is a company that helps seniors be able to live their lives in their own home or their family’s home with the care support and equipment needed to do so. The company conducts an in-depth assessment of the needs of the patient(s) in need of supportive care/equipment through interviews with their nursing staff. From there, they can make recommendations and provide the supportive care providers necessary.

Chris shared his story about having been disappointed in the experience with home care for loved ones in the past and that he wanted to provide a high-quality service for the patients who want to be able to live in their own home. We talked about the fact that it’s actually possible to have an elderly patient live in their own or a family member’s home for less than or similar costs to an assisted living center or nursing facility.

Blaine Warketine shared some impressive statistics about how much of overall healthcare spend each year comes from providing high-acuity care in the last days of life, often for patients who didn’t actually want to have aggressive measures. Vimty is a platform that allows patients to conduct video interviews with counselors and family members wherein they are able to state their wishes for end of life care measures, along with context for why they feel the way they do.

We talked about the fact that this record has much more weight and is much more likely to prevent much of the family drama that can occur with the typical written advanced directive document (or worse, in the cases of NO document). Through the Vimty platform, patients have a permanent record that is part of their EMR that can be referenced when end-of-life measures become necessary.

Special Guests:

Maria de la Guardia, of Assisted Living Locators