Care Services

Admission Criteria

The Heart of Hastings Hospice accepts referrals from patients, family members, friends, visiting nurses, physicians, clergy, or home-care workers.  Anyone can call Hospice!

The Heart of Hastings Hospice strives to make initial contact and assessment and placement of a volunteer within 1-2 days unless there is a delay requested by the family. The Heart of Hastings Hospice is available to people with life-limiting, life-threatening, terminal illness, and the bereaved.

You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of life, And we will do all we can, Not only to help you die peacefully, But to live until you die. ~ Dame Cecily Saunders, Founder Hospice Palliative Care Movement
The Heart of Hastings Hospice is an organization
which spans six partnering communities:
  • Municipality of Centre Hastings
  • Municipality of Marmora and Lake
  • Municipality of Tudor and Cashel
  • Municipality of Tweed
  • Township of Madoc
  • Township of Stirling-Rawdon