Mission & Management

Montgomery Hospice is an independent and community-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving residents of Montgomery County, MD. Our connection to the community has helped us grow and serve the public for over 25 years.

Mission

To gentle the journey through serious illness and loss with skill and compassion.

Vision

To bring comfort by providing the best care to our community's multicultural residents who are facing serious illness and loss.

To be the best workplace for staff and volunteers.

Core Values

The principles that guide our employees and volunteers are:

• Unconditional Compassion: Compassionate care, partnered with professional excellence, is the heart of our service.
• Dignity of the Dying: We affirm the right of our patients to be treated with respect, and to be honored as unique individuals.
• Dedication: We are committed and privileged to ease the burdens and challenges that our patients and families face.
• Collaboration: Mutual respect, empathy and trust unite us in providing care.

History

Montgomery Hospice is the first independent, homecare/hospice organization licensed in Maryland. Volunteers founded our core service, Hospice at Home, in the basement of a church in Chevy Chase in 1981.

Casey House opened in 1999 and is our area's only medical facility designed and built to comfort the dying.

A key part of our history and our ongoing commitment to the community is professional bereavement care, which we provide to anyone in Montgomery County coping with loss.

Montgomery Hospice has grown from serving seven patients in 1981 to more than 1,400 patients and 4,800 bereavement care clients annually.