United Hospice

The Hospice Program offers a comprehensive array of direct care and support services to individuals and families facing advanced illness. The Organization served 819 patients in 2023 including services provided at home, in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, group homes, hospitals and the Joe Raso Hospice Residence (JRHR) which opened on March 16, 2012. Care is provided regardless of ability to pay. Philanthropic support makes it possible for United Hospice to provide services to those without insurance or with inadequate insurance. Philanthropic support also enables the Organization to provide services not mandated by regulation such as massage and music therapies as well as in-home respite care.Bereavement Support Program offers individual and group counseling services to the family members of those served by the Hospice Program as well as any individual in the community who has experienced a loss. Crisis intervention services are provided to individuals, schools, work sites or any other venue where a tragedy has occurred. Healing Hearts provides bereavement services to children and the adults responsible for them who have experienced a loss. Philanthropic support makes it possible for the Organization to offer the breadth of bereavement services provided.United Hospice's operating license has included two counties, Rockland and Orange for the past 35 years. The New York State Department of Health determines the operating territory of each hospice operating in New York. To better serve Orange County, United Hospice has established as office in Goshen, New York that will support the expansion of services. In the year ended December 31, 2023, United Hospices revenue related to its Orange County operations increased from $505,855 to $702,368. It provided an equivalent of 3,035 patient days of care. During the year ended December 31, 2023, management implemented a three-year strategic plan that was focused on further improving patient care and operations. A central priority of its plan was to determine how to further prioritize the comfort and wellbeing of patients. As such, the Organization began the process of developing a palliative care program and is currently in the process of obtaining the Medicare designations needed to provide this level of care.