Taking A Look Back …
Arkansas Hospice now serves more than 300 patients daily in their own homes, nursing homes, hospice facilities or hospitals throughout central Arkansas.
Our extraordinary services are made possible by a professional staff of more than 350 doctors, nurses, social workers, nurse assistants and administrative personnel, along with 350 wonderful, dedicated volunteers.
Arkansas Hospice Foundation is dedicated to raising public awareness and financial support for Arkansas Hospice programs and services, so Arkansans have the opportunity to choose extraordinary hospice care for their families and loved ones, regardless of their ability to pay.
DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES
January 1994 Arkansas Hospice was incorporated as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization, dedicated to the dream of establishing the state’s first hospice home and end-of-life care center. Arkansas Hospice was one of the first organizations in Arkansas to promote AIDS education, sponsoring workshops throughout the state on providing care to terminally-ill AIDS patients.
October 1998 Arkansas Hospice began providing hospice care in patients’ homes.
February 2000 Arkansas Hospice opened the state’s first inpatient hospice center (24 beds) in a leased wing of the Eugene Towbin Healthcare Center.
January 2001 Caring Friends of Arkansas Hospice was incorporated as a separate 501(c)(3) to become the supporting foundation of Arkansas Hospice (CFAH changed its name in 2003 to Arkansas Hospice Foundation).
Fall 2001 Faith in Action Program and Advisory Council was establisted through funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, forming a caregiving coalition with local faith-based groups.
June 2002 Our second inpatient hospice center (16 beds) was opened in Little Rock in a leased wing of St. Vincent Doctors Hospital.
June 2002 Arkansas Hospice Foundation opened its first Arkansas Hospice Resale Shop.
February 2003 Michael Aureli, Chief Executive Officer, was named Nonprofit Executive of the Year at Arkansas Business Business of the Year Awards. Arkansas Hospice was honored as one of five finalists for the Nonprofit Business of the Year.
July 2003 Senior Specialists Hospice in Russellville became an Arkansas Hospice program, expanding our service area by adding three new counties and extending two others.
December 2003 Arkansas Hospice Resale Shop #2 opened at 5600 West 12th Street.
March 2004 Terminally-ill patients of St. Vincent Doctors Hospital in Little Rock became the first to benefit from Arkansas Hospice’s program to manage end-of-life care for hospital patients. Through arrangements with the hospital, Arkansas Hospice provides 24-hr nursing coverage, staffing one hospice RN to every four terminally-ill patients. Patients receive end-of-life care just as they would in one of our hospice centers.
November 2004 Arkansas Hospice Foundation was voted Best Non Profit Foundation of 2004 in a readers’ poll sponsored by Arkansas Business.
December 2005 Monticello office was added by Permit of Approval on December 6, 2005, serving Drew and Desha counties.
July 2006 Arkansas Hospice was granted a Permit of Approval to serve Crittenden and Mississippi counties from a new office in West Memphis. The office was opened in June 2007.
August 2006 Arkansas Hospice was granted a Permit of Approval to serve Independence County from a new office in Batesville. The office was opened in June 2007. In November 2007, Jackson County was added to that service area.
October 2006 Arkansas Hospice made application to the State for a multiple site location in Cabot. This site would help expand services provided from the Little Rock office. The office opened in November 2006.
March 2007 The Arkansas Hospice Resale Shop was closed.
September 2007 The North Little Rock Center consolidated with the Little Rock Center and a chapter in Arkansas Hospice history was closed.
Awards & Accolades
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