A Home Away From Home

Michigan’s lack of a residential facility for pediatric hospice care represents a deep and urgent gap in the state’s healthcare landscape. While adult hospice residences exist to provide comfort, dignity, and family-centered support at the end of life, there is no equivalent home-like setting for children who are dying or living with life-limiting illnesses. Instead, families must navigate between hospitals — often clinical and impersonal — or attempt to provide complex medical care at home, where exhaustion and emotional strain can become overwhelming. The absence of a dedicated pediatric hospice home means that children are deprived of a space designed for their unique needs — a place filled with warmth, play, and compassion, where medical care and childhood can coexist. It also denies families a community of understanding and support during one of life’s most painful journeys. Creating such a facility is not just a matter of healthcare infrastructure; it is a moral commitment to ensure that no child or family in Michigan faces this experience without comfort, dignity, and care.

Our organization is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which means we are recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt, charitable entity. All donations made to us are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law, and every contribution directly supports our mission and the families we serve.