Helping Alaskans Live With Purpose
& Meaning In Every Season

I am caring for someone with an end of life diagnosis​

I am someone diagnosed with an end of life illness

I am grieving the loss of a loved one or dear friend​

Hospice of Anchorage is the oldest and first Hospice to serve the Anchorage community. We were incorporated as Anchorage Hospice in 1980 and are licensed as a nonprofit Volunteer Hospice organization.

We are the only one of this kind serving the Municipality of Anchorage. There are crucial differences between a volunteer and Medicare-certified Hospice.

Unlike Medical-certified hospice models, we are not reimbursed through Medicare or private insurance. Instead, our work is sustained entirely through the generosity of corporate sponsors, individual donors, and grant funding. We host our annual Hospice of Anchorage Gala to bring awareness to the beauty of the hospice mission and to increase advocacy for the ways Hospice of Anchorage can serve as a gap-filler when other local social services cannot provide assistance.

Hospice of Anchorage Team Member Highlight

Linda Beckworth McCarthy – Hospice of Anchorage Administrative Volunteer

 

I returned to volunteering at Hospice early this year. I feel strongly that no one should have to walk the death-grief path alone. While I’m currently doing office work, I can still support HOA’s goals of “supporting the transition from life through death and coping with loss and grief.” Also, this month as I sat at home recovering from a total knee replacement, I experienced the “Spark of Joy” that hospice clients get monthly when some beautiful flowers arrived to brighten a gray gloomy day!

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