Special Care Facility
The Joseph House is both a service and philosophy. We provide comprehensive care to terminally ill residents, enrolled in the hospice of their choice, their families, and significant others, by helping them continue life as normally as possible during the end-of-life phase. The facility encompasses the physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs of the resident and is structured to care for residents and the members of their family like they were members of our own.
For example, we help the daughter who cannot always afford to take time off from work to care for an ailing parent; we help families who can provide the care, but the family and/or terminally ill person does not desire to die in the private home; we help the loving wife who desires to take care of her husband of many years, but her age and health prevent her from giving the care he needs; and last but not least, we help those, who for whatever reason, have no one to care for them.
The Joseph House is licensed as a Special Care Facility and receives no state or federal funding. Many Americans believe that Social Security or Medicare will pay for 24 hour care through placement in a nursing home or provide paid help in our homes, all of which is untrue, as we each are responsible for end of life care whether it be for our grandparents, parents or ourselves.
Death is final, unyielding, and humanly unconquered. The loneliness of the event can be overpowering to those who love us the most as they struggle to walk the lonely mile with us. It is a time when love, comfort and kindness seems to flee away to hide. The individual on this path is the person we serve. This special journey can be and should be with comfort, respect, and dignity to not just the dying person but to the family also. Dying is the last journey we will embark upon and it is a journey no one should walk alone.