Good Endings® is an innovative program on caring for the dying resident. No health care facility should be without this intense, compassionate approach to end-of-life care.

Good Endings® will:

• Provide your facilities with materials to educate your staff regarding death & dying issues.




• Assist you in developing your own Good Endings® program.




• Provide steps on how to recruit, train, & facilitate your own Vigil Teams.




• Enhance the marketability of your facilities by providing this service to the community.

Good Endings® has been featured in:

Television - Channel 40 News story on Good Endings Vigil Program

Chosen Sunbridge Business Women of East Longmeadow
Springfield Newspapers Women in Business Section.

Provider Magazine (ad) - 1999

Balance Magazine - 1999

"Lending Comfort in Final Days", by Dayna Hyman
Union News/February 17, 1999. Springfield, MA

"Employees Volunteer to Make Sure Terminal Patients Have Good Endings", by Valerie Smart.
The Reminder, December 1, 1999. East Longmeadow, MA

"Good Endings", by Pat Cahill
The Sunday Republican/January 23, 2000. Springfield, MA

"Good Endings", reprint by Pat Cahill
Journal of Nursing Assistants/July 2000

Nursing Homes Magazine
Journal of Nursing Assistants/October 2000

Journal of Nurse Assistants/October 2000

Caring for the Ages Publication/November 2000

Nursing Homes Magazine/November 2000

Caring for the Ages Magazine/December 2000

Healthcare News of Western Mass./December 2001

CNA Today/January 2002

"Genesis Implements Good Endings Program"
The Reminder/February 13, 2002

"Counselor Offers Music to Ease Grief", by Pat Cahill
Union News/May 3, 2002

"Woman Develops Program to Ease Loneliness of Dying Patients"
The Catholic Observer/August 23, 2002

"Missing - Death education in our nursing facilities"
Nursing Homes Magazine/September 2004

"JGS Introduces Program to Provide Therapeutic Music For Those Nearing End-of-Life"
Topics Newsletter, Jewish Geriatric Services/Fall 2006

"Donalyn Gross' Harp Music Comforts The Dying", by Tom Shea
The Republican Newspaper/October 10, 2006

The Reminder January 18, 2007 "Program Provides Therapeutic Music During Patients' Last Hours" by Danielle Payne

The Jewish Ledger, January 26, 2007 JGS Program Provides Therapeutic Music To The Terminally Ill

Long Term Living Magazine (formerly Nursing Homes Magazine), website: www.ltlmagazine.com, Online Exclusive article "Make Way for the Therapeutic Harp", May 26, 2008

Nursing Assistant Resources on the Web,Interview: Donalyn Gross, Death and Dying Expert, June 23, 2008

"Day in the Life- Death and Dying Counselor", Healthcare Ledger, Vol. 5, Issue , July 2008, by Susan Kaminski

"Bedside Music in the Hospital", Beginnings Magazine, The American Holistic Nurses Association, Vol.28 No.4, Fall 2008, by Dr. Donalyn Gross