Short-term by design
Not a nursing home or a permanent move. When symptoms stabilize, we help plan the next step — often back home.
When symptoms outgrow home, comfort still comes first.
When pain, breathing, agitation, or nausea become more than home care can safely manage, Treasure Coast Hospice inpatient units provide short-term, round-the-clock symptom care in a calm, private setting close to home — with your family right beside you.
Start with what matters most right now.
Use these shortcuts to understand when inpatient care helps, what the units feel like, where they are, and how family support works.
Inpatient care
You didn't fail at home. The symptoms just outgrew it.
Most hospice care happens right where the patient lives. But when a symptom crisis — pain that won't settle, frightening breathing, sudden agitation or nausea — outgrows what home can safely manage, our inpatient units step in: short-term, medically supervised care focused entirely on getting symptoms back under control, so you can go back to being family instead of nursing.
Your family stays close
Private rooms, no visiting hours, and you in every conversation about what comes next.
Local, nonprofit care
Three units across Martin, St. Lucie, and Okeechobee — no one travels far for this care.
Clinical guidance
Some symptoms need more than home can give.
This level of care — General Inpatient Care, or GIP — is for short stretches when a symptom can't be managed safely at home and needs continuous attention from nurses trained in end-of-life care. If you're watching any of these, it's reason enough to call.
Pain that won't come under control
Nurses adjust medications and monitor comfort far more closely than home allows, until the pain eases.
Breathing distress or sudden agitation
Frequent, hands-on assessment and symptom support, so no one waits through a long night alone.
Severe nausea, vomiting, or complex medications
The unit supports careful, closely watched medication changes that are hard to make safely at home.
A plan to get back home
Inpatient care is a turning point, not a destination. Once symptoms settle, the team plans the next safe setting, with hospice support continuing wherever that is.
What to expect
Clinical care that doesn't feel like a hospital.
Our units do two things at once: deliver real, round-the-clock medical care, and feel like a place a family can be together. The noise of a hospital is stripped away on purpose — what's left is quiet, light, and room to be present.
24/7 nursing care
Nurses and aides on hand around the clock for symptoms, medications, comfort, and the questions families are afraid to ask.
Private rooms with room to stay
Every room is private, with a sleeper sofa and a patio open to fresh air. No visiting hours to send anyone home.
Family, children, and pets welcome
Children are welcome, family pets can visit, and our HosPet volunteers bring therapy dogs to the bedside.
Shared family spaces
Quiet lounges to rest, regroup, or sit with others who understand the week you're having.
Local units
Three units, rooted here for decades.
Each unit was built and sustained by this community — through philanthropy, through storms, through nearly forty years of caring for local families. When you walk into one, you're walking into a place neighbors built for neighbors.
Hay-Madeira Inpatient Unit
On our Stuart campus since 1996, with private rooms, patios, and 24/7 nursing. Home to the Joan Hay-Madeira Chapel.
Harper Inpatient Unit
Also on the Stuart campus, serving Martin County since 1992. Private rooms and the same round-the-clock care.
The Lynch Pavilion Inpatient Unit
Our Fort Pierce unit for St. Lucie County. Rebuilt after the 2004 hurricanes and rededicated as The Lynch Pavilion in 2019.
Family support
Support doesn't stop at the bedside.
While the clinical team handles symptoms, the rest of our team focuses on you — explaining what's happening, what may come next, and making sure no one carries it alone.
Nurses, social workers, and chaplains explain symptoms and decisions in plain language, as often as you need.
Chaplains for every family, shaped around your own beliefs, and never imposed.
Counseling through the Thomas Counseling Center, during the stay and for as long as you need after.