{"id":48900,"date":"2025-12-01T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:29:07","slug":"no-one-dies-alone-program-links-med-school-students-with-hospice-patients-in-scranton-wilkes-barre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48900\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Dies Alone program links med school students with hospice patients in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            NEWS VOICES<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to News Voices, a weekly feature where members of the WVIA News team will talk with each other \u2014 and sometimes sources \u2014 about key things we learned in recent stories we are working on.<\/p>\n<p>This week, WVIA&#8217;s Roger DuPuis and Lydia McFarlane talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2025-11-23\/geisinger-medical-students-accompany-scranton-wilkes-barre-allied-hospice-patients-with-no-one-dies-alone-program\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the No One Dies Alone program<\/a>, which partners Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine students with patients at Allied Services Hospice facilities in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Program volunteers &#8220;vigil sit,&#8221; which means to provide company to hospice patients whose loved ones can&#8217;t be with them.<\/p>\n<p>Their conversation aired on WVIA Radio. Listen below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS VOICES Welcome to News Voices, a weekly feature where members of the WVIA News team will talk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-48900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}