The Companion 2021 Community Benefits Report
Created by the Blue Ridge Hospice Leadership & Marketing Department

Our annual Community Benefits Report has been published. In it we discuss the work that we do and the services we provide to all those who are a part of our community. To view the full report, please click this link:  2021_Community-Benefits-Report

Blue Ridge Hospice benefits from the generous support of the communities we’re privileged to serve.

And we’re proud that we, in turn, have been able to benefit the communities that have supported us throughout our 40 years of community service. Not just through the end-of-life care and grief support we provide — which is a given. But also through the positive impact Blue Ridge Hospice has in terms of contributing to the health of the local economy, providing quality and rewarding jobs, bettering the quality of life for all, and helping keep our environment a little greener.

That’s what part of this publication is about — a report to you on the benefits we deliver that go far beyond our stated mission. That mission — brightening life’s journey with quality and compassionate care for all whom we are privileged to serve — of course is at the heart of who we are and what we do.

So much of our mission, in fact, goes well beyond what we are required to do by Medicare and Medicaid to ensure that we provide that extra level of care that brightens life’s journey. Our extra level of care encompasses music therapy, pet therapy, grief and loss counseling, spiritual counseling, equine therapy, programs for children and teenagers struggling to understand and work through the loss of a loved one, parents struggling to understand and work through the loss of child, and special programs to honor and recognize the veterans among us for the sacrifices they’ve made. Our extra level of care also includes our Inpatient Care Center in Winchester, where no one is ever turned away for lack of funding.