Hospice of Southern Maine

Hospice of Southern Maine's HSM Mission is to provide compassion care and comfort through end-of-life for patients with life-limiting illnesses and support for their families. As the leader in hospice care in Southern Maine our focus is quality and excellence in patient and family centered care. We are the hospice provider of choice for patients families colleagues healthcare professionals and referral sources. Working with patients and their family through the process of dying death grief and loss we work to shift social attitudes and practices to ease the difficult journey of patients and loved ones. To meet our Mission HSM offers comprehensive hospice care to patients in York and Cumberland counties by an interdisciplinary team of physicians nurses hospice aides social workers chaplains grief counselors and volunteers. Our patients have life-limiting illnesses with a prognosis of six months or less. In addition to providing medical emotional social and spiritual support to our patients we also provide care before and after the death for their loved ones. Our bereavement program which is an important part of our mission offers support for 13 months following the death of a loved one. Our program is unique in that it offers one-on-one counseling at no cost. We also offer eight-week group sessions for people who are interested in connecting with others in a similar situation. Additionally we provide counseling and group support to anyone in the community who is grieving whether or not their loved one died while under our care. Formed through a collaborative effort among York and Cumberland County community leaders and health care providers HSM began providing direct patient services in 2004. In 2007 HSM opened the area's first inpatient hospice facility - the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. Today HSM is the only free-standing state licensed Medicare-certified nonprofit in Maine that is solely focused on providing this hospice care.