Our Mission
Hospice of Natchitoches is forever focused on meeting the needs of individuals and families facing end-of-life realities with quality, compassionate care.
What Sets Us Apart?
Locally Owned & Operated
Founded in 2000, Hospice of Natchitoches has the longest record of continuous service of any hospice organization in our area. We live here. We operate here. We’ve served Northwest Louisiana patients and families for over 20 years.
Experienced Team
Our interdisciplinary team is composed of nurses, physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, chaplains, hospice aides, volunteers and Louisiana’s only hospice music minister. Our team, in addition to hospice physicians and nurse practitioners routinely visit patients in their homes. On-staff physicians and nurses are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Accessibility
Hospice of Natchitoches, is state licensed, medicare, & medicaid certified and preferred providers for most private healthcare entities. Hospice of Natchitoches, does not refuse services based on an individual's inability to pay.
Distinguished & Recommended
Hospice of Natchitoches is the hospice of choice in Natchitoches and Sabine Parish and is highly recommended by the physicians of the area. We receive overwhelmingly positive reviews from loved ones of those who have deceased.
Innovative Programs
Hospice of Natchitoches is the only hospice in our area providing music ministry. Such therapy has been shown to aid patients in reducing pain and anxiety. We also provide community educational programs relating to end of life care and bereavement .
Our Community. Our Commitment.
We opened our doors in 2000 under one guiding principle: provide compassionate care for the people of our community with life-limiting illnesses, as our own. While it is our profession that allows us to do what we do, it is our role in the community that informs how we do it. Each of our staff has personal and professional experiences with hospice services, and we understand how important it is to have access to dependable, professional and timely help when needed. We consider ourselves friends to the people we serve because we live in the communities we serve.
Our History
How Hospice Began
With time and the advance of medicine, birth and death were transplanted to a new and often strange and intimidating environment: the modern hospital, where family members were merely guests and control rested with unknown health professionals.
In the 1970’s while acknowledging the many benefits of modern medicine, a group of clergy, healthcare workers and other thoughtful people began wondering whether these advances, by depriving the natural dying process, might also rob individuals and their families of dignity in death. Out of their concerns hospice care was born in the United States, and the natural process of dying was returned to the home.
Hospice has experienced extraordinary growth since then, with more than 3,500 hospices now serving people in every state of the union and the District of Columbia.
Bringing death out into the open and making sickness and loss a time of sharing and remembrance is difficult. And while the hospice experience may not be for everyone, those who choose hospice find the specialness of caring for a loved one and the richness of sharing memories of youth, trials and joys a rewarding experience never to be forgotten.
"You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but to live until you die."
– Dame Cicely Saunders (founder of the first modern hospice, in London in 1968)
Hospice of Natchitoches
Hospice of Natchitoches, Inc. was established and incorporated in the state of Louisiana in September 2000. Since that time, we have cared for over 2000 individuals with life-limiting conditions and their families.
Hospice of Natchitoches, Inc. has the longest record of continuous service of any hospice in Natchitoches, Sabine, DeSoto, Winn, Vernon and Grant parishes. We are a certified provider of the Medicare and Medicaid hospice benefit.
In 2010 Hospice of Natchitoches became a partner with the Veterans Administration in providing quality end of life care for our Nations veterans through the We Honor Veterans program. In 2014 we obtained a Level II partnership through the program.
Hospice of Natchitoches, Inc. is an affiliate of both the Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care Organization and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization.
Service Area
With offices and staff in Natchitoches, Many and Leesville our team of highly trained and experienced professionals live in the communities we serve. We consider ourselves neighbors and friends to the people of Grant, Winn, Rapides, Vernon, Jackson, Sabine, Desoto, Red River and Bienville Parishes.
