About Treasure Coast Hospice
Treasure Coast Hospice is a nonprofit, community-based hospice serving Martin, St. Lucie, and Okeechobee counties. We were built here, by neighbors, for neighbors, and we have been doing this work, on this stretch of Florida, since 1982.
Why We Exist
We sit on the porch in Palm City, we pull a chair next to a recliner in Hobe Sound, we walk down the hall of the assisted living community in Port St. Lucie, we drive out to Okeechobee. When a higher level of care is needed, we have inpatient units a few minutes from where most of our patients live.
We're there to help patients stay themselves for as long as possible, and to help the people who love them feel a little less alone in one of the hardest stretches of their lives.
Hospice isn't a building, it's a promise — that wherever you are, a team of people who truly care will show up for you. For the physical comfort you need, for the fear and grief your family carries, for the life story that deserves to be honored. Every person, every time, every need. - Shannon Cooper, RN, COO at Treasure Coast Hospice
Our Mission and Vision
Guided by compassion. Driven by our community.
Mission
To provide patients and families with compassionate, expert hospice care and grief support at the end of life.
Vision
The standard doesn't change because of the address, the diagnosis, the insurance, or the day of the week.
Built By This Community, For This Community
In 1978, a nurse and social worker named Marjorie "Nunie" Harrington drove to Miami to see what hospice actually looked like. There wasn't a version of it on the Treasure Coast yet, and she came home convinced there needed to be.
She wasn't alone. A handful of nurses, social workers, and volunteers — Cecelia Furey, Carol Pendleton, Tecla Shaw, Leta Williams, Pat Green, Marjorie Harrington, and others — pulled together what would become Hospice of the Treasure Coast. The state license came in 1982, the first office opened in Fort Pierce, and the first fundraiser - the Snowflake Ball - happened that same year.
Treasure Coast started because a few people in this community decided that families here shouldn't have to choose between dying in a hospital or dying without help. It started with volunteers, and that hasn’t changed.
We are still nonprofit. We are still locally governed. And every dollar that doesn't go into direct care goes back into programs, people, and community support. That structural choice is the reason we can say people over profit.
What Makes Treasure Coast Hospice Different
Nonprofit since 1982
Built here by neighbors who saw a gap. Still nonprofit. Still locally governed. Decisions about how care is delivered here are made by people who live here.
Three inpatient units
When symptoms can't be managed comfortably at home, patients have somewhere close, calm, and clinical to go, without traveling far for a higher level of care.
Pediatric hospice — Little Treasures
A dedicated pediatric team — pediatric nurses, social workers, music therapists, specially trained massage therapists, chaplains, and contracted pediatricians — caring for children with serious illness and the families around them.
Care regardless of ability to pay
Thanks to the Treasure Coast Hospice Foundation and our donor community, no one is turned away because of cost.
If you want to see the full picture of what we do (including grief support, our Veterans Care Program, and Foundation-funded complementary therapies) — the place to start is Care Services
Treasure Health, Treasure Coast Hospice, and the Foundation
A quick map, because the names can be confusing if you are new to us:
- Treasure Health is the umbrella organization. It's the parent brand.
- Treasure Coast Hospice is the hospice and grief-support arm — the part of Treasure Health that provides direct patient care, bereavement services, pediatric hospice through Little Treasures, and veteran-focused hospice care.
- The Treasure Coast Hospice Foundation is our philanthropic arm. It exists to raise the funds that pay for everything Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance don't — charity care, pediatric care, grief support, the Veterans Care Program, Treasured Pets, complementary therapies, and community education.
If you would like to support the mission, the Foundation is where that begins.
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