{"id":38370,"date":"2026-05-18T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=38370"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:04:40","slug":"local-family-donates-to-benefit-sbl-hospice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/38370-local-family-donates-to-benefit-sbl-hospice\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Family Donates to Benefit SBL Hospice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><em>Pictured left to right, SBL Hospice Nurse Elizabeth Hemmen, Richard and Mary Althoff, Amy Card, and Tammy Phillips<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mary and Richard Althoff of Effingham recently donated $10,000 to the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Foundation to benefit SBL Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Althoff is currently receiving hospice care from SBL and wanted to donate because she\u2019s very grateful for the care she\u2019s receiving, evident by wanting one of her favorite nurses, Elizabeth Hemmen, in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SBL Hospice staff has been so good to me, and I want to show my gratitude for what they all they do,\u201d she said. The Althoffs&#8217; donation will help people currently receiving hospice who have no or limited insurance to cover their care, as well as help to fund last wishes for hospice patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I received a call from Tammy, Richard and Mary\u2019s daughter, I was completely humbled and honored to meet with them and accept this donation, in honor of Mary and the care she\u2019s receiving,\u201d said Amy Card, SBL Health Foundation director. \u201cThey\u2019re a wonderful family and will touch many lives of future patients receiving our hospice care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about SBL Hospice, contact 1-800-454-4055, or to donate, contact Amy Card at\u00a0acard@sblhs.org\u00a0or 217-258-2511.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured left to right, SBL Hospice Nurse Elizabeth Hemmen, Richard and Mary Althoff, Amy Card, and Tammy Phillips Mary and Richard Althoff of Effingham recently donated $10,000 to the Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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