About The Hospice of Baton Rouge: A Legacy of Compassionate, Patient-Centered Care
About Us
Founded in 1984 to meet a critical need in the community, The Hospice of Baton Rouge has been a leader in end-of-life care. Our founders, driven by a vision of compassionate care in familiar surroundings, established the city's first hospice program, ensuring that patients could spend their final days in comfort and surrounded by loved ones.
About Us: Baton Rouge's Trusted Hospice Since 1984
Our Story
The vision of Mr. Don Berlin, Dr. David Lion, and Dr. David Kahn came to fruition when The Hospice Foundation of Greater Baton Rouge was established in 1984. Faced with terminal cancer diagnoses, Mr. Berlin and Dr. Lion both desired to spend their final days at home. However, no hospice services were available in Baton Rouge at that time. Collaborating with their oncologist, Dr. Kahn, these men successfully laid the foundation for what is now The Hospice of Baton Rouge.
About Us: Baton Rouge's Trusted Hospice Since 1984
Our Story
Today, The Hospice of Baton Rouge stands as the oldest hospice in the city, the only nonprofit hospice, and the first to open an in-patient unit in Baton Rouge.
About Us: Baton Rouge's Trusted Hospice Since 1984
Our Story
Since its inception in 1984, The Hospice of Baton Rouge has provided quality end-of-life care to three generations across 13 parishes. Our mission is to offer compassionate care in a home or homelike setting, ensuring that no patient dies alone or in discomfort. As the oldest and only nonprofit hospice in the area, The Hospice of Baton Rouge delivers the most experienced and trusted care to all patients, with excellence and empathy everyday.
Philosophy of Care: Focusing on the Individual
Mission: To ensure our community has access to exceptional, compassionate end-of-life care and grief support.
Vision: To educate and serve our community on serious illness, hospice, and the grieving process.
Purpose: We affirm life and view death as a natural process.
About Us
A Holistic Approach to Care
At The Hospice of Baton Rouge, our compassionate team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, aides, and volunteers collaborate to create personalized care plans for each patient and their loved ones. These individualized plans guide our comprehensive hospice services, ensuring comfort, dignity, and quality of life for every individual we serve.
Core Values: Guiding Our Commitment
Excellence: Providing competent, professional care that is accessible to all.
Compassion: Delivering holistic care for the mind, body, and spirit, treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Integrity: Acting with honesty and accountability in all we do.
Stewardship: Being responsible with our time, talents, and resources, giving back to the community that supports us.
Teamwork: Fostering a collaborative care model where everyone's voice is heard, and we share responsibility for the quality of care we provide.
Leadership: Experienced and Dedicated
Board of Directors
As a nonprofit, our decisions are made by a group of distinguished individuals in our city. Each board members plays a vital role to the success of the organization by putting the patient’s needs first.
Our Support
- Registered nurses conduct most visits. Small patient caseloads allow nurses to spend more time with each patient.
- Prompt admission following referral.
- Numerous Hospice and Palliative Care certified Nurses (CHPN) are on staff, assisting families.
- Bereavement support is available to anyone in the community, including short-term individual counseling.
- Hospice aide services are available up to 7 days a week, including holidays and weekends, based on patient needs.
- A registered nurse is available 24/7, including nights, weekends, and holidays, for emergencies.
Leadership: Experienced and Educated
Medical Staff
Hospice or palliative care is comfort care. Our goal is to address the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of individuals who are in the final stages of life. Services are provided by The Hospice of Baton Rouge in the patient’s home, assisted living facilities, nursing homes and group homes. Our interdisciplinary team of health-care professionals and trained volunteers provides hospice care.
Our Experience
- Providing hospice care to the Greater Baton Rouge community for over 35 years (since 1984).
- The Butterfly Wing®, the first inpatient unit in the Greater Baton Rouge Area, opened in 2005.
- Offering pediatric support for children with terminal conditions for over 30 years.
- Our Medical Directors are certified in Hospice and Palliative Care.
- Our Medical Directors have a combined 50 years of hospice experience.
Bereavement Support
You Are Not Alone
As a component of The Hospice of Baton Rouge's end-of-life care, we extend our Bereavement Support Program to our patients' families for 13 months after the patient's passing. This comprehensive service encompasses cards, letters, phone calls, visits, and participation in bereavement support groups.
Our Care
- Accepts ALL hospice-appropriate patients, including those with Medicare, Medicaid, ANY insurance, and those without a provider.
- Hospice care for ALL ages, our youngest being 3 days old.
- The first and ONLY non-profit hospice provider based in Baton Rouge.
- Preferred hospice provider for all insurance companies, most assisted living communities, and many nursing homes.
- We Honor Veterans® program dedicated to honoring and serving veteran patients.
- CHAP accredited and Medicare/Medicaid certified.
- Pet Peace of Mind® program supporting the pets of hospice patients.
- Camp Conquer - Bereavement camp for kids.
Get In Touch
Contact Us
If you have any questions or would like to request information from The Hospice of Baton Rouge, you may fill out the form below, call us at 225-767-4673 or email us directly at info@hospicebr.org. We will be happy to help in any way we are able.