by Carol Ann Campbell
The Star-Ledger

Nurse Corinne Temple has become close with patient, Tanya Landeros during her hospice care at Peggy Coloney's House at The Center for Hope in Scotch Plains.Gaile Keegan rolled her wheelchair past the split-rail fence, the roses and lilac tree and the Japanese garden.

"Isn't it lovely?" she asked, turning her face toward the breeze. "I come here to reflect."

The 60-year-old woman expects to spend her last days at this new hospice in Scotch Plains, where she sleeps in a private room and spends time in the library, or by the fireplace in the living room.

Does she feel at peace?

"I'm still working on that," she said with a wry smile.

Keegan, a New Providence woman with tumors in her lung and liver, lives at New Jersey's newest free-standing hospice, a 30-bed facility called Peggy Coloney's House, designed to give terminally ill patients a dignified and pain-free end to their lives.

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