Mission & Background

The Mission of Family Hospice is to provide compassionate, quality comfort care that enhances the lives of people with life-limiting illness and  their families.

For those experiencing a life-limiting illness or injury, Family Hospice provides expert, compassionate care, a complete continuum of care - unlike any other hospice in the region. Family Hospice is the leading not-for-profit, community-based hospice organization in Western Pennsylvania. Our heritage of caring leads to the innovation that is setting the standards for the future of hospice and palliative care.

• Family Hospice is committed to quality patient care and education.
• One of the first hospice programs in Western Pennsylvania, Family Hospice was created in 1980 by Mercy Hospital, St. Clair Hospital, South Hills Health System and South Hills Interfaith Ministries.
• Family Hospice provides hospice care in homes, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, hospitals, and our inpatient unit in Lawrenceville.
• Family Hospice's inpatient unit in Lawrenceville, opened on the campus of Canterbury Place in February 2012.
• We collaborate with the area's largest staff of board-certified palliative care physicians.