Center for Hospice Care and the Hospice Foundation

"Established in 1978" — "serving patients since 1980"; the organization's two dates both print

Founding: The hospice line is South Bend-founded and its founding carries a two-year disagreement inside the organization's own tellings. Its published release of June 2018 says the Center for Hospice Care was "established in 1978." Its current site says it has been "serving patients in St. Joseph County since 1980," and its 2020 annual report calls 2020 "our 40th anniversary year" — arithmetic for 1980. The two dates print as the two mechanisms they most likely are, an organization formed in 1978 and a service begun in 1980, but the organization's materials reached for this account do not say that in so many words, so the dates stand side by side unsettled.

Course: The Center has cared for more than 45,000 patients, in its own figure, across a nine-county service area. It owns and operates two of Indiana's seven freestanding Medicare-certified hospice inpatient units — a fact of state scale carried in its own materials: the Ernestine M. Raclin House, twelve beds, and Esther's House, seven beds. Both stand on other cities' ground — the Raclin House in Mishawaka, where the Center's riverfront campus opened on 20 August 2013, and Esther's House in Elkhart — and they are printed at the boundary: the institution is South Bend's founding, its inpatient houses are its neighbors'. The Hospice Foundation is the Center's fundraising arm, a separate corporation raising the money the care requires. Mark M. Murray was president and chief executive in the Center's 2020 annual report.

Sources:

1. Center for Hospice Care, release of June 2018 (PRWeb) — "established in 1978."
2. Center for Hospice Care (cfhcare.org) and its 2020 annual report — "serving patients in St. Joseph County since 1980"; 2020 as "our 40th anniversary year"; more than 45,000 patients; the nine counties; the two inpatient units among Indiana's seven; Mark M. Murray, president and chief executive.
3. Center for Hospice Care, campus announcements, 2013 — the Mishawaka riverfront campus opened 20 August 2013; the Raclin House's twelve beds; Esther's House, Elkhart, seven beds.
4. Hospice Foundation (foundationforhospice.org) — the fundraising arm's separate existence.