Hospice & Community Care history

Before volunteer hospice services began in 1987, nurses found end-of-life procedures challenging at Shorncliffe Care Facility, built four years earlier, says Blackwood.

1988 The Donald C. Wilson Endowment Fund is established with initial contributions totaling $69,000.

1989 Hospice of Lancaster County moves from Fountain Avenue, Lancaster to West Airport Road in Lititz.

1992 Hospice services are expanded to local nursing homes.

1994 Robert and Agnes Flory make a leadership gift of $1,000,000 to Hospice of Lancaster County to name The Essa Flory Hospice Center in memory of their daughter.

1996 Hospice of Lancaster County opens The Essa Flory Hospice Center, the first free-standing hospice inpatient center in Pennsylvania.

2004 Hospice completes construction on a major expansion to the Hospice Center, nearly doubling its size.

2005 The organization celebrates 25 years of providing care and service to the community.

2006 Palliative Medicine Consultants, Hospice of Lancaster County’s physicians, is established.

Seeing a need for expanded care, in 2008 Hospice & Community Care opened the Wayne T. Patrick Hospice House, an inpatient facility on the current campus.

2011 Charitable care provided by Hospice & Community Care surpasses $1 million.

2012 Hospice of Lancaster County changes its name to Hospice & Community Care.

2014 Hospice & Community Care opened its outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic at 685 Good Drive, Lancaster to provide a unique level of service to patients in our community.

2015 Hospice & Community was selected from 2,000 hospice providers nationwide to be one of the 140 hospices to participate in the Medicare Care Choices Model demonstration project.

2018 Hospice & Community Care became the largest hospice provider in Pennsylvania.