Heart of Hospice - Western Arkansas has grown to become one of the largest hospice programs in the state of Arkansas, serving Sebastian, Scott, Franklin, Logan, and Crawford counties. Our interdisciplinary team has been proudly caring for families in the River Valley region for over 20 years. We  provide the community with the highest quality, end-of-life care by listening to their unique needs and serving them the way they desire to be served.

Located on the 6th floor of Baptist Hospital in FortSmith, we have been proudly serving the River Valley for 16 years in our 11-bedinpatient unit (IPU). At that time of our opening, we were only the second IPUin the state of Arkansas.

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We are Heart of Hospice’s founding organization! In the heart of Cajun culture, Acadiana is home to people who love and care for one another. We take that very seriously and thread Cajun culture into everything we do. We believe that every patient has the right to end-of life-care as they choose it and we are blessed to carry out the mission and vision of our organization. Heart of Hospice has been providing compassionate, quality care to Cajun Country since 2007.

Heart of Hospice – Baton Rouge cared for our first patient in January 2019. Since then, we have had the opportunity to transform hundreds of lives across our community. We are dedicated to meeting patients where they are. This approach has given us the privilege of patients who would typically be turned down by most hospice companies.

Heart of Hospice has a mission to transform the end-of-life care continuum in the communities we serve. In 2013, the Bayou Region proudly began servicing St. Mary, Assumption, and parts of St. Martin Parish. As our community outreach grew, it became evident that we needed to be closer to our patients in the Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes. Our Thibodaux location opened its doors in 2019. The Bayou team brings a “can-do attitude” to support our patients and families while we transform care one patient at a time.

Heart of Hospice has been serving Central Louisiana since 2016. Our agency has a dedicated team of people who provide the best service and quality care for our patients. We won “Agency of the Year” two years in a row and set ourselves apart from other hospice providers because our philosophy is to meet our patients wherever they call home and serve them in the way they desire to be served. We are proud to be the known hospice experts in the community.

New Orleans is our home and our patients are our neighbors. Our city is rich in culture, charm, and diversity, and is full of strong relationships. The Heart of Hospice family thanks you for allowing us to serve your family and our community.

Our unit was initially constructed in April as a response to the overwhelming need in the greater New Orleans area for resources to treat COVID-19 positive, hospice-eligible patients and support our local hospitals. We partnered with East Jefferson Hospital to open a temporary unit for these patients and our 15-bed IPU has been operating since inside the former Bridgepoint LTAC in Jefferson Parish.  

Though COVID-19 is still impacting our community, we recognize that a need for a hospice inpatient unit will exist far beyond the COVID-19 crisis and moved to make our unit permanent. The Heart of Hospice IPU is now one of only two hospice IPUs serving the greater New Orleans area. Our hybrid unit will continue to serve COVID-19 positive patients, providing each a private room where they receive care from an interdisciplinary care team and are able to enjoy in-person visits from their loved ones. It also provides care for COVID-19 negative, hospice-eligible patients who require a more advanced level of pain and symptom management than is possible in the home.

Since 2007, Heart of Hospice has been compassionately providing quality, end-of-life care throughout the communities it serves.

In 2014, Heart of Hospice was purchased by Evening Post Industries, a privately held, family-owned company. They believed that Heart of Hospice could lead transformation in the industry through commitment to breaking barriers to access and providing quality, end-of-life care to all eligible hospice patients. With strong, experienced leadership, Heart of Hospice not only became the transformative hospice that was envisioned, but also grew exponentially.  

In 2016, Heart of Hospice purchased Hospice Family Alliance in Monroe, Louisiana, forming the excellent agency dedicated to quality service that we have today. We consider it a privilege to serve this community we dearly love.

Located in Covington, Louisiana, Heart of Hospice - Northshore Louisiana joined the Heart of Hospice family in 2016 and proudly serves St. Tammany Parish, Washington Parish, and Tangipahoa Parish. Heart of Hospice - Northshore provides custom, individualized plans of care that cater to our patients’ needs and wishes. Our dedicated staff is not only experienced, but also determined to deliver care in the way that each patient desires it. We tailor treatment by providing patients and families with tuck-in visits, access to our 24/7 RN triage line, fast response time from an RN, visits on holidays and weekends, stacked visits, and more. We are transforming the end-of-life care continuum in our communities by offering extensive comfort care and treatment options that meet all our patients where they are.

Heart of Hospice acquired Hospice of Shreveport Bossier in March 2019, and with this acquisition Heart of Hospice was able to complete the coverage of the state of Louisiana.  What makes Heart of Hospice – Shreveport special is the local team and what we stand for as a company, providing care to every hospice-eligible patient. We are unique; being this far North of our sister agencies, we are almost considered Texans! Our food is different, and our accents are different, but the thing that makes us all one as a company is that there will never be a patient who needs our care that we will deny access.

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Heart of Hospice Southwest is comprised of a diverse and talented team with people from various walks of life. As an organization, we unite with one goal: to provide the best care to our patients and families. We go above and beyond to ensure that our patients receive the care, compassion, and support they deserve. For us, caring for the dying is a ministry that we are proud to be a part of.

We are honored to serve the Thibodaux area. Our agency meets patients where they are, offering individualized hospice care right in their hometowns. Heart of Hospice cares for patients wherever they call home and in the way they desire to be cared for.

Heart of Hospice - Delta Mississippi, nestled in Cleveland, opened their doors to the region in 2017, committed first to delivering the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Service’s ethical standards that the Delta community deserves. Integral to delivering superior care is also our commitment to our patients designing their own care plans based on their unique wishes. Finally, we have built a culture of compliance, respect, and amazing care via happy employees. Our culture, knowledge, and compassion make our team amazing. Each hand-selected employee upholds our culture of excellence in end-of-life care; we are empowered to be amazing!

Heart of Hospice – Northwest Mississippi, located in Olive Branch, is packed full of amazing professionals.  Each were hand selected to build and cultivate a culture of the highest ethical standards and excellence in care. Their commitment to one another and to the patients and families we serve is unsurpassable. Our team is the true testament that hospice is a calling. They are meeting their call day in and day out.

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The Jackson agency started in Central Mississippi in April 2017. It was one of the first branches Heart of Hospice opened from the ground up in Mississippi, beginning with just five patients. We now serve over 120 hospice-eligible patients in our community. We offer many more options as a hospice than any other provider in Jackson; we meet patients and families where they want to be met with their care, allowing therapies and treatments other hospices do not traditionally offer.

In 2017, Heart of Hospice expanded their services into Mississippi by purchasing license numbers. Heart of Hospice - Southern Mississippi began operations in October of 2017 as a start up in Collins. In July of 2019,the office moved from Collins to Hattiesburg.

The Southern team is known as the “Dream Team,” with a family-oriented culture. Our motto is #NoBadDays, meaning that no matter what the day brings, we refuse to allow it to be a bad day. When an employee joins our team, they are truly joining a loving, caring, and compassionate work environment. This culture directly impacts our patient care. The Southern team has and is providing care in some very complex situations; it has prepared our team for any clinical, social, or spiritual scenario that may occur. We truly transform the end-of-life care continuum in our community one patient and family at a time.

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Nestled in the fertile Poteau River Valley, Heart of Hospice is delighted to serve Eastern Oklahoma, celebrating this vibrant city for its strong and diverse historical heritage. Our care team works to meet our patients where they are, focusing on our patients’ needs and desires to ensure that they are served in the way they desire to be served.

Heart of Hospice – Midlands, formally Heartstrings Hospice, has been serving patients and their families since 2007. Our Medical Director was the first physician in Columbia to earn Board Certification in Hospice and Palliative Care. His leadership has made us the regional experts in hospice care. Because of this, we are the largest hospice in the Midlands and have the staff to meet and care for patients at any time of day or night. Our leadership team has been with us since the beginning. By maintaining our great leadership, we have been able to show consistency, giving our patients and their physicians confidence that we will provide the care they have been accustomed to receiving. Heart of Hospice is the benchmark of care other hospices aspire to achieve.