Remembering Jennifer Kinzie (1979-2021)
Editor’s note: Michael Gilbert contributed to this remembrance of Jennifer Kinzie, who died on February 22.
Jennifer Kinzie was a woman full of hope. I say that delicately, reverently, and, even in the light of her recent death, I say it as defiantly as Ms. Kinzie might say it herself, were she able to do so.
But alas, she is not. Jennifer Lynn Kinzie passed away suddenly last week in Virginia.
Streetwise and sincere, Kinzie was a licensed mental health counselor who truly was a person of lived experience. She was diagnosed as “bipolar” as a teenager, and like so many from her generation, she was medicated. After suffering the debilitating effects of diagnosis and drugs, Jennifer used this personal experience in order to guide her work not only as a counselor and therapist, but also as a volunteer with numerous psychiatric survivor groups.
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House of John stays open in Clifton Springs during COVID-19 pandemic
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With closures, visitation regulations and uncertainty plaguing comfort care homes, House of John in Clifton Springs continues to keep its doors open for patients facing end-of-life care and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the beginning of March 2020, Kathy Barrick, Executive Director, and Caroline Baker-Drake, Care Coordinator, attended an informational meeting with University of Rochester’s Hospice Director for Comfort Care Homes in order to formulate a plan to keep patients, families, staff and volunteers safe. With a modified approach, House of John stayed open when the majority of comfort care homes closed. Modified regulations included having only one patient at a time, limiting visitors to three loved o