Beginning the Journey
Over ten years ago, while working in hospice as a nurse, I realized a need for a place where hospice patients could go when their symptoms became unmanageable at home or the caregiver needed a break. Inpatient hospice care offers this in the hospital or long-term care setting, or, in a hospice house if the hospice company itself has one. However, most hospice companies do not have hospice inpatient facilities. Hospitals and long-term care, while excellent in the care they give, are not trained as hospice caregivers or in the hospice philosophy. A gap existed in the options we offer to the dying patient.
Together with my husband Bob, who has over 45 years of healthcare operations and management experience, we began our “journey” to create such a place. A place where ALL hospice patients from ANY hospice company can come when they are in need of symptom management, respite care, or routine private-pay care. A place that has specially trained hospice staff who embrace the hospice philosophy with an environment that provides peaceful, large spaces for family and caregivers. A place where hospice companies can feel at ease when admitting their patients there. We want to work with every company, their staff, and their patients to provide excellent, fluent transition of care. The patient will continue to see their current providers while in our facility. We feel it is crucial to respect each companies mission and plan of care so that the patient does not experience the confusion that can come with transferring their location of care.
Once we became hospice caregivers, we knew we would spend the rest of our lives devoting our service to end-of-life care. Every human deserves the love and dignity of a peaceful passing and it will be our fervent mission to provide that in the way they prefer, in a very well-planned environment designed to do so.
Years of praying along with hard work developing and planning have brought us to where we are today. Believe me, we have had our times of frustration, disappointments, setbacks, partnership breaks, negativity, and pain along the way. Many seasons of working two and three jobs to keep this dream alive. However, God always sent the right people to help us stay afloat at the right time and we will always be indebted to those who answered His call. We have been so incredibly blessed with financial and business partners who believed in our mission and have helped us build this dream. We will strive to do whatever we can to serve the dying patient with dignity, love, respect, and honor.
We are not a faith-affiliated organization, but we are a faith-based organization. We honor God in all we do and are thankful for the duty He has entrusted to us to care for the dying patient.
