Big Bend Hospice
Big Bend Hospice inspires HOPE by positively impacting the way our community experiences serious illness or grief-one family at a time. The mission of Big Bend Hospice is to provide compassionate care to individuals with a life limiting illness, comfort to their families, and emotional support to anyone who has lost a loved one.
Why Big Bend Hospice?
Each day, families deal with the difficult responsibility of caring for a companion, friend, or loved one living with a terminal illness. Many times, the situation is presented to individuals and their families as an unpleasant circumstance. Big Bend Hospice provides hope, by approaching the circumstance as one of life’s most precious opportunities—an opportunity to live each day to the fullest! Whether it’s spending precious moments with family and friends or taking up a new hobby— with Big Bend Hospice, patients and families find peace and enjoyment in what matters most to them. There is hope with hospice, and it can be found with Big Bend Hospice.
The mission of Big Bend Hospice is to provide compassionate care to individuals with a life limiting illness, comfort to their families and emotional support to anyone who has lost a loved one.
Big Bend Hospice belongs to this community. Following the initiation of modern hospice care in the United States in 1974, medical and civic leaders in the Big Bend area received a certificate of need and in 1983 received a license from the State of Florida to provide hospice care in Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor and Wakulla County. 850-878-5310 or 1-800-772-1983 www.bigbendhospice.org
Big Bend Hospice Offers Free Grief Counseling Services: Individual grief support in Wakulla and Franklin, as well as in-services and support for workplaces, churches, etc.. As an agency we offer support groups and remembrance services and events in Leon County. BBH also provide grief education materials. Contact Melanie Lachman, LCSW, Grief Support Counselor at 850-671-6080 or by email at Melanie@bigbendhospice.org.
Interested in giving back to your community? Hospice volunteering offers a special opportunity to make a meaningful impact for both hospice patients and their families. There are many ways to volunteer for BBH! Please call Amy Dean at 850-566-7485 or email amy@bigbendhospice.org to find out how you can bring your time and talents to those who need it most!
Call today to learn about FREE programs and services. Contact our volunteer, Andrienne Hill at (850) 566-8814 or andrienne@gigbendhospice.org
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To download "Top Ten Questions about Big Bend Hospice" click here
To learn more about "PEACE-Planning early about care at the end" program, click here
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