Home Health & Hospice Week

Meanwhile, Georgia hospice facility closes its doors.

Crescent City in the northern part of California has one hospice and is about to get another.

Coastal Home Health & Hospice now has a location serving the city, reports the Del Norte Triplicate newspaper. And Sutter Health plans to open its own hospice by this fall, the Triplicate notes.

“Despite a state-wide moratorium on issuing new licenses, two applicants made successful efforts to introduce hospice care to Del Norte County,” it says.

Other openings include:

In Oregon: Partners In Care has opened a new Hospice House in Bend. It joins their already existing hospice facility there, doubling capacity to 12 beds, KTVZ news reports. Partners In Care spent $13 million on the new facility and remodel of the existing facility. The hospice is furnishing General Inpatient and Respite care in the locations.

In Georgia: St. Mary’s Hospice House in Watkinsville has closed. “It has become financially unsustainable to operate St. Mary’s Hospice House as a standalone hospice facility, as more families opt for in-home care,” wrote a Trinity Health Georgia executive in a memo to employees, reports The Oconee Enterprise newspaper. St. Mary’s Hospice will continue to offer in-home care, the Enterprise says.