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We all have incredible stories of how In Touch Hospice has helped our loved ones during their end of life stage and we need to keep this facility and the wonderful employees here!

In Touch Hospice House debuted in 2009 through a donation by the Wheeler family, after their patriarch Harold W. Wheeler died following a four-year battle with cancer.

The location was designed as a home away from home for people with acute needs — many of whom were in end-of-life scenarios, enabling their families to spend time with them in a setting that includes a kitchen, living room and a sun porch.

Hospice care is a family-centered team approach that includes a doctor, nurse, social worker, chaplain, counselor, hospice aide and trained volunteers. They work together focusing on the dying person’s needs-physical, emotional, social and spiritual. The goal is to keep the person as pain and symptom-free as possible while offering spiritual and supportive counseling to the patient and family members. In Touch Hospice offers patients and their family the option for short term use in their inpatient hospice facility, House of Journey’s Rest, or have care in the privacy of their own home.

"As a registered non- profit hospice provider, we believe our primary role is to care for the community, one family at a time."

Recently UPMC has plans to close the Hospice House In Touch building on Aug. 1, 2022 and plans is it will be used for administrative offices for hospice and home health services.

Compassion over Money!