When you donate to the SSM Hospice & Home Care Foundation, you are helping patients and families in your community. These funds are used to help in-need patients with the purchase of items not covered by insurance. Your donations are also used to help caregivers who may have had to stop working to care for a loved one in hospice.

All hospice offices in the SSM Healthcare network offer a holiday remembering ceremony for bereaved families. It is a very important event to many who are grieving. Funds raised from memorials help provide simple refreshments of punch and cookies after the ceremony.

Hospice donations also help provide resource materials for grieving family members including the book “Gone From My Sight,” by Barbara Karnes and booklets on Advance Directives and Durable Powers of Attorney. Donations were used to provide community and staff training as well as continuing education for other hospice professionals within the region.