As we met our new friend Walt, the elevator operator at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, my mom and I caught up with him about his visit with his new grandson. Reaching the sixth floor, where the 12-bed Jay Robert Lauer Hospice and PC Unit occupies six rooms, we exited to find another familiar face. We hadn’t seen Bernadette in the past week of our five-week daily visits to room 606. READ MORE..