Lewiston – Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice announced three staff appointments for its hospice program.

Registered nurse Janet Hall, who is hospice program director, has accepted the newly created position as AHCH Hospice House manager. The 14-patient suite is under construction on Stetson Road in Auburn and is scheduled for completion late October.

Hall joined AHCH in 2002 and holds a certification in hospice and palliative care from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

Registered nurse Karen Flynn is AHCH’s first full-time hospice educator. She will coordinate and deliver hospice orientation/educational programs for agency staff, long-term care facility staff and for community education programs.

Flynn has been in a nursing role at AHCH since 1988 and is a hospice and palliative care certified nurse from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.

Jim Douglas joins AHCH as its first full-time bereavement coordinator. He will actively partner with community groups and organizations to offer bereavement support programs and volunteer training.

He holds a master’s degree in education from the University of Maine at Orono, a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Middlebury College in Vermont and is a recorded minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker). Douglas was pastor at Durham Friends Meeting in Durham.