Founded in 1979 by a dedicated core of local volunteers seeking a better way to care for the dying in our community, Hospice of Kitsap County became this area’s first hospice care provider.  Still governed today by a voluntary board who live and work in Kitsap County, Hospice of Kitsap County is a not-for-profit, Medicare certified, Washington State licensed agency generously supported by this community through memorial gifts, donations, grants, and annual fundraising events. 
Today, Hospice of Kitsap County has 75 full time employees and more than 100 volunteers. Our interdisciplinary team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, health aides, spiritual counselors, and volunteers design detailed care plans that address each patient’s medical, emotional, spiritual, psychosocial, and educational needs while also striving to support the needs of the patient’s family and loved ones.
As the first and only locally incorporated hospice care provider in Kitsap County, we have worked in concert with local doctors and providers for the past 31 years to ensure that our services and programs reflect the needs of our community.

Our Values:

• Respond to our patients' and families' needs
• Treat everyone with respect
• Acknowledge and embrace religious, ethnic and cultural diversity
• Provide the highest quality service
• Affirm patient self-determination, empowerment and choice
• Encourage staff's personal and professional development
• Demonstrate good stewardship of our resources

Our Goals:

• To support quality of life at the end of life by allowing patients and their loved ones to make choices about what is important to them.
• To provide effective pain control and symptom management.
• To help the patient and loved ones resolve end-of-life issues.

Some of the important milestones accomplished by Hospice of Kitsap County include:

• Providing 25,566 days of care to patients in 2009;
• Providing bereavement services to 2,200 people in Kitsap County;
• Opening the only residential hospice care center in Kitsap County.  This much needed facility serves those whose disease process makes it impossible for them to remain in their own home;
• Establishing contracts with each of the skilled nursing facilities in the County to provide hospice care to their residents in the places they call home;
• Expanding our Community Bereavement Program to include children and at-risk youth in collaboration with all five County school districts;
• Establishing strong working collaborations with area hospitals, Tribes, Kitsap Mental Health, Child Protective Services, and United Way of Kitsap County partner agencies;
• Including Complimentary Therapies like massage therapy, aroma therapy, music therapy and pet therapy, to help patients reach goals of physical, emotional and spiritual comfort;
• Creating an internship program for students working toward their Masters level social work degree and RN license.

Guided by our mission to provide comfort, dignity and caring to those completing life’s journey as well as those who care for them, Hospice of Kitsap County has become this community’s foundation for people in need of support around end-of-life issues.

Annual Reporting:

Please click here to see the most recent copy of our IRS form 990

Contact HKC

Phone: 360-698-4611
Fax: (360) 692-1893
Email Us: info@hospicekc.org

Address:
Hospice of Kitsap County
3100 Bucklin Hill Rd. #201
PO Box 3416
Silverdale WA 98383

Hospice of Kitsap County is proud to be a United Way Partner