Photo Gallery

When I first visited Hospice Alkmaar in July 2000, it was a dream struggling to become a reality. In October of 2002, when I visited to teach, along with colleague Claire Pace, APRN and Executive Director of HospiceCare in the Berkshires, Hospice Alkmaar had already been a reality for almost two years.

The initial team met with me at the Alkmaar Medical Center (Medisch Centrum Alkmaar), in July 2000.

	Standing in the Oncology Department of Alkmaar Medical Center (Medisch Centrum Alkmaar), from left to right: Marion and Frans in't Veld, Finances and Public Relations (financiën en PR), Jelle Vleer, Medical Director (Voorzitter Stickting De Oversteek), the late Sicco Konijn, visionary and RN at Medisch Centrum Alkmaar's Oncology Department, and Tineke van der Munnik, Volunteer Coordinator (vrijwilligers-coördinator). Sitting: Kathleen Rusnak.
	The dream comes true. Hospice Alkmaar resides within this Elder Person's Home at Pr. Julianalaan 14, 1815 JE Alkmaar, Holland.
	In front of Hospice Alkmaar, from left to right: Wim Boon (Board Member), Claire Pace (Executive Director of HospiceCare in the Berkshires, Pittsfield, Mass.), Tineke van der Munnik (Volunteer Coordinator), and Ellis Jonker (Executive Director of Hospice Alkmaar).
	At the entrance to Hospice Alkmaar, from left to right: Kathleen, Tineke, Ellis, and Claire.
	Tineke van der Munnik, Volunteer Coordinator (second from right) with some of her volunteers at a beautiful and quiet retreat center in Bergen, Holland, just north of Alkmaar during a two-day volunteer training program.
	Claire Pace, APRN, Executive Director of HospiceCare in the Berkshires, Pittsfield, Mass., teaching new and experienced volunteers about patient care at the end of life.
	Ellis and Claire, both Executive Directors, chatting over a break during the volunteer training.
	Kathleen giving her presentation on "The World of the Dying."