Welcome to Compassion Crossing! When illness touches your family, we’re here to help.
This website supports caregivers, family members, and healthcare professionals who care for someone with a chronic or terminal illness. You’ll find practical articles on pain management, palliative care, medication safety, care coordination, grief support, and making difficult decisions—all designed to help you feel more prepared and confident.
We also serve as your personal healthcare journey project manager—coordinating care between multiple doctors, attending appointments and hospital procedures with you, reviewing medications to catch dangerous drug interactions, and ensuring every step of your treatment plan is completed properly. This comprehensive oversight helps improve the quality of life. It may even help extend life by preventing medication errors, catching problems early, and ensuring you receive the full benefit of all treatments.
You don’t have to navigate this alone. Whether you need information or personal support, we’re here to coordinate your care and support you every step of the way.
How We Can Help
We provide support tailored to your needs during life’s most challenging transitions. Whether you’re seeking helpful articles, personal guidance with active care coordination, or professional training for healthcare teams, we’re here to walk alongside you every step of the way.
Educational Resources
500+ articles provide comprehensive guidance on caring for loved ones with chronic or terminal illness, coordinating complex healthcare, managing medications safely, coping with grief, and end-of-life care. These resources help you understand what to expect and how to provide the best care possible.
Personal Support
We offer personalized services for individuals and families. As your healthcare journey project manager, we coordinate all aspects of your care between multiple providers, attend medical appointments and hospital procedures with you, review medications from all sources to prevent dangerous interactions, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Our services include:
- Advance Care Planning – Ensuring your wishes are honored through complete living wills and healthcare directives
- End-of-Life Support – Compassionate care, comfort coordination, legacy projects, and meaningful vigil planning during life’s final journey
- Grief Support – Healing support throughout all types of loss, including anticipatory grief and ambiguous loss
- Illness Navigation – Serving as your healthcare project manager to coordinate care teams, attend appointments and procedures, review medications for safety, watch for early warning signs, and guide you through health changes and lifestyle improvements that can enhance quality of life and potentially extend life
- Medication Reviews – Catching dangerous drug interactions between prescriptions from different doctors, reducing preventable complications, and ensuring medications work together safely—a critical service that can improve quality of life and help extend life by preventing medication-related harm
- Wellness Checks – Combining compassionate companionship with professional nursing assessments, comprehensive medication management, and active care coordination to ensure your loved one stays safe, comfortable, and protected
On-site visits are available throughout Madison County, Kentucky, with attendance at local medical appointments and hospital procedures. Virtual meetings are available anywhere through Google Meet, Zoom, or phone for education, planning, and ongoing support.
Professional Training
Our staff development training helps healthcare teams and organizations become effective healthcare journey coordinators and project managers for patients with complex medical needs. Teams learn to coordinate care between providers, prevent medication errors, catch problems early, and more confidently support those facing chronic or terminal illness, grief, and end-of-life transitions.
The training covers topics such as chronic illness progression, hospice and palliative care, grief support, medication safety and reconciliation, care coordination strategies, preventing complications, and how to serve as effective healthcare journey coordinators for complex patient cases.
Finding What You Need
Use our menu to explore:
- Blog – New articles plus important pinned posts at the top covering care coordination, medication safety, symptom management, and compassionate care.
- Featured – Key areas for palliative or hospice care include medication management and care coordination.
- Categories and Tags – Find articles by topic, including medication safety, care coordination, and illness navigation.
- Popular Articles – What others find most helpful for managing complex healthcare journeys.
- Resources and Recommended Reading – Additional support materials for coordinating care and managing medications safely.
- Browse – Explore all our services and website features.
About Our Author
Peter Abraham, BSN, RN, writes articles, books, and guides that help hospice nurses, end-of-life doulas, holistic nurses, and caregivers feel more confident in their essential work. With years of hospice and palliative care nursing experience, Peter understands the critical importance of coordinating care, preventing medication errors, and serving as a healthcare journey project manager for patients with complex medical needs.
He also shares his knowledge through his growing YouTube channel, Nurse Peter, where he discusses death, dying, compassionate care, medication safety, and care coordination with hospice nurses, holistic nurses, caregivers, family members, and end-of-life professionals. His goal is simple: reduce stress, prevent complications, and create a more supportive environment for everyone involved in caring for others.
Ready to Talk?
We’re here to help you during this difficult time. Schedule a free conversation to see how we can serve as your healthcare journey project manager, coordinate your care, and support you, someone you care about, or your organization.
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