OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home

"A Hospice Home is a facility that is specifically designed to meet the needs of terminally ill patients and accommodates the needs and concerns of visiting family members and friends, all in a warm, comforting home-like environment."

The OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home will be located near the OSF Center for Health on Route 91 in Peoria, Illinois.

It will be the first hospice home in central Illinois and only the fourth such facility in the state of Illinois. This facility is not yet built - construction is underway with an expected opening in Spring 2013.

The 16-room hospice home will help terminally-ill patients receive 24-hour comfort care in a home-like setting, allowing quality time for family and friends to help their loved ones accept life's end in peace, with comfort and dignity. This facility will be most useful for patients in their final days and weeks of life when home-based pain and symptom management becomes too difficult for caregivers; when their caregivers need a brief respite, or when there are no caregivers available at home.

Why Choose a Hospice Home?

Facing a terminal illness is a difficult situation for anyone. While the comforts of home and family may be desired, what happens when the proper level of day-to-day care is unattainable in a home environment?

• What happens to the 85-year-old man, dying of congestive heart failure, with no children close to home and an ailing wife? Where does he go for the support he needs and desires?


• What about the 55-year-old-woman dying of breast cancer whose husband and parents can no longer care for her? Where can they go for support?


• What is the best choice for the 42-year-old woman who pain is so out of control that she is unable to get out of bed, nothing seems to be working, and she wants her pain controlled well enough for her to travel to visit her elderly mother who is confined to her home?

How Do You Know Hospice Care is the Right Thing to Do?

• When there is not a family member to care for the patient at home


• When the patient requires around-the-clock care


• When the family or caregiver needs a time of respite from the care needs of the patient


• When a patient requires symptom or pain control that cannot be managed at home


• When a patient or caregiver wants to provide the patient with the amenities of home and the clinical support needed for patients facing imminent death


• When a patient experiences complex problems, their physician can admit them to the Hospice Home versus an Emergency Room


• When a patient is suffering from acute-symptom pain and needs short-term pain management