Journey Home Hospice

Launched in 2018, Journey Home Hospice is a partnership involving the Saint Elizabeth Foundation, Inner City Health Associates and Hospice Toronto. It is a joint passion to improve equitable access to hospice palliative care for Toronto’s homeless community in a socially innovative way. Journey Home Hospice provides our clients with high quality health care services and a safe, welcoming and caring environment for their end-of-life journey. A place based in the community, for the community. Our work is guided by a Community Advisory Panel including people with lived experience of homelessness and a dedicated team of leaders, physicians, allied health professionals, staff and volunteers who each bring a unique perspective and specialized expertise to the Journey Home team As a centre of excellence for homeless palliative care, we are working to advance national best practices of care delivery for this unique patient population. We measure key indicators in areas such as quality, safety patient satisfaction and system impact to ensure we are achieving our goal of excellence in homeless end-of-life care.