Location

Corporate Headquarters:
400 Mack Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
      (313) 578-5000

Other Hospice of Michigan Locations

Services

Comprehensive, compassionate care to people who are terminally ill. Care includes:

• Physical support: pain management, symptom control, personal care
• Emotional and spiritual support: helping patients and families cope
• Grief support: helping families, friends for 13 months after the loved one's death
• Volunteer services: providing companionship, doing chores, listening, giving time off to family caregivers
• Financial assistance: helping all terminally ill patients, regardless of ability to pay

History

Hospice of Michigan was formed in 1994 through the merger of 10 community-based hospice programs located throughout Michigan's Lower Peninsula, each of which had been serving their communities since the 1980s.

Significant Facts

• Serves more than 6500 hospice patients and more than 14,000 family members every year, making it the largest hospice program in Michigan. Cares for one out of every four hospice patients in the state.
• More than 650 full- and part-time employees and 900 trained volunteers.
• More doctors and nurses certified in hospice and palliative care than any other hospice in Michigan.
• One of only a handful of hospices in the country with a dedicated pediatric team.
• Annual budget of approximately $70 million.
• 85 percent of care provided in patient's or family's home.
• Houses the Maggie Allesee Center for Quality of Life - the hub for research, education and outreach efforts in end-of-life care.
• First hospice in Michigan licensed by Department of Public Health.
• First hospice in Michigan to care for patients with AIDS.
• Published "Caring for a Loved One with Advanced Dementia," winner of the 2002 Award for Excellence in Education from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
• 98% of Hospice of Michigan family caregivers said yes when asked, "Would you recommend hospice to others?"