About Hazel Burns Hospice

Mission Statement:

Hazel Burns Hospice is a community based non-profit visiting volunteer organization, providing compassionate care, emotional and daily living support, for people with a terminal illness. Working alongside the family and professional caregivers, we provide a wide range of services, according to individual needs.

History of HBH:

The late Hazel Burns, RN, was a dedicated health care professional who exemplified compassion and caring throughout her lifetime. In 1991, to commemorate these deeds, her friends founded the Hazel Burns Hospice. We strive to embrace the standards of care set by her example.

Hazel Burns Hospice’s Objectives:

The journey faced by those suffering from a life threatening illness can be the most difficult one they will ever have to cope with. We at Hazel Burns Hospice office support to the terminally ill and their families on this most difficult journey by:

• Providing emotional and physical support by professional staff.
• Counseling the individual, family, or caregiver in coping with the challenges of ongoing changes and losses in daily living, and with the grieving process both the physical & emotional, and the mental impact before and after the death
• The development of the skills needed for dealing with grief and loss
• Offering caregiver Support Groups, which provide compassionate peer support with an educational component given by professionals in the community
• Collaboration with other service providers to ensure continuity of care
• Advocacy for needed services offered by the community
• Respecting personal, cultural, religious beliefs, practices and values

We are committed to giving clients directed care, so they can maintain as much control as possible, keep their dignity and have a quality of life until death.

Hospice Philosophy:

Hazel Burns Hospice strives to empower those suffering from a life threatening illness, and their families, to live better until they die

“Life is not about the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!”
-Author unknown

Future Dreams, Hopes, and Initiatives:

• Grief support group
• Client support group
• Residential hospice
• Professional complimentary therapists