Prairie Home Hospice
About Us
Prairie Home Hospice is a communty-based, free-standing nonprofit hospice program that has been serving patients and families since 1984. In these few important years, hospice grew from a "dream" conversation between two nurses and a physician in the winter of 1982-83 to a Medicare-certified, free-standing hospice program with strong community support, a five-bed residential facility, a staff of 45 and more than 85 patient care volunteers.
Our Mission
Prairie Home Hospice provides hospice services to terminally ill persons in our service area, which is a 50 mile radius of Marshall. Hospice care emphasizes living your remaining days as fully as possible, provides relief from the physical, spiritual and emotional pain that often accompanies a terminal illness, cares for the whole person and their family, and provides grief support to the surviving family.
Our purpose....to provide dignified and compassionate end-of-life care.
Our vision.... to create a climate where indiviudals and families facing death and grief will experience the best care possible; collaboration between patient, family, medical community, hospice staff and volunteers is essential; and we are advocates and educators in end-of-life care and bereavement support.
Our values....we value the affirmation of life and acceptance of death as part of life's journey; excellence from highly motivated, competent and empowered staff, volunteers and board members; respect, honesty, integrity, confidentiality, trust and professionalism; and responsible stewardship of the gifts and resources with which we have been entrusted.
Why We Need a New Website
With the challenges we are currently facing with the economy and the possible legislative action that could affect our reimbursement from Medicare and Medical Assistance, we are finding ourselves relying even more on our communities for financial support. Currently about 75-80% of our annual revenue is from third party payers such as Medicare, Medical Assistance, insurance companies and private pay. This leaves the remaining 20-25% of our revenue to come from community support and fundraising efforts. With the concept of "doing more with less" becoming a reality, we need to be as efficient as we can with our information, education, and fundraising efforts. A new website would assist us with our advocating and educating the terminally ill and their families; our referral sources such as physicians, nurses, discharge planners, etc.;our donors and supporters; as well as the general public. We are also looking into ways to conduct fundraising efforts and be able to accept donations online. An example of this is with our Charity Ball and Auction coming up in April. We would like to post pictures and descriptions of the auction items for people to see to entice them to attend the event and bid on items.
How Our New Site Will Help Make the World Greener
We would like to investigate the possibility of making as many of our mailings/publications as possible available online to decrease or maybe even eliminate the cost of printing and postage. There is also some advertising and marketing that could be done online. The areas that this would save the most in are printing, postage, advertising and staff/volunteer time, all of which can add up to tens of thousands of dollars. We would also use much less paper and envelopes by doing more online.
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