Hospice of the East Bay
Hospice East Bay, a 43-year-old hospice pioneer, provides comfort, support, and care for those in their final stages of life, as well as for their loved ones. In doing so, it seeks to strengthen its role as a community leader in hospice and palliative care—which focuses on symptom and suffering relief, and grief support––and to build an environment of collaboration, celebration, opportunity and growth, as they embrace the changes their patient’s experience.
Established in 1977 by community volunteers to create support for patients who wanted to die at home, Hospice East Bay has since then been privileged to provide comfort, support, and care for more than 30,000 patients and their families. Its mission is to care for patients through the end of life, easing fear and suffering, while also ensuring that patients and families retain dignity and control over their personal choices, Rico Marcelli, a spokesman for the firm said.
Hospice East Bay has grown to include many programs and services, he said.
In addition to its core hospice care, the firm offers palliative care, inpatient hospice care, and grief support for the entire community. Hospice East Bay also operates a chain of six Hospice Thrift Shoppes throughout Contra Costa County to raise funds for special programs and charity care, a volunteer program, and opportunities for careers in hospice.
Hospice East Bay’s inpatient care home, called Bruns House, combines inpatient hospice care for those requiring acute symptom management in a type of privacy and quiet not found in a hospital, with intensive round-the-clock care that cannot easily be achieved at home.
The East Bay’s only inpatient hospice house, Bruns House has cared for more than 3,000 patients and their family members, Marcelli said.
3470 Buskirk Ave., Pleasant Hill, CA, 94523
(925) 887-5678
hospiceeastbay.org
