When illness or loss touches a family, what people often want most is simple: time together, comfort, and care that feels personal. In Marion County, Hospice of Marion County (HMC) is delivering exactly that, now with expanded support as part of Empath Health.
This integration brings together compassionate expertise and a broader range of home-based services, all centered on helping individuals and families live as fully as possible, where they feel most at ease.
A More Personal Way to Care
Empath Health is built on the belief that care should adapt to people’s lives, not the other way around. Through a connected approach that emphasizes empathy, coordination, and individualized support, Hospice of Marion County and Empath Health help reduce the stress that often accompanies serious illness.
The focus is not solely on medical needs, but on the whole person, supporting comfort, dignity, and daily life so families can spend less time managing care and more time being present with one another.
More Than Hospice
For more than 40 years, Hospice of Marion County has been a trusted provider of hospice and palliative care. Being part of Empath Health expands that mission, giving Marion County residents access to a wider continuum of services that can evolve as needs change, without losing the familiarity of local care teams.
Available services include:
- Hospice Care: focused on comfort, dignity, and quality of life
- Palliative Care: providing relief from pain and symptoms at any stage of serious illness
- Home Health Care: offering skilled nursing and therapy services in the comfort of home
- The Empath Dementia Education and Care Center: guiding families through memory-related illness
- Grief Care for individuals and families navigating loss
Together, these services are designed to work seamlessly, minimizing transitions, improving communication, and keeping care centered on what matters most.
Care Close to Home
While Empath Health brings expanded resources and expertise, Hospice of Marion County remains deeply connected to the Marion County community. Local care teams continue to serve neighbors with compassion and understanding, strengthened by the support of a larger organization dedicated to home-based care.
Living Fully, Together
Serious illness may change life, but it doesn’t have to take away meaning or connection. Through thoughtful, coordinated care delivered at home, Hospice of Marion County and Empath Health are helping families focus less on illness and more on living, loving, and being together when it matters most.
Hospice of Marion County
A member of Empath Health
Learn more at HospiceofMarion.org or (352) 873-7400
