The Suncoast Hospice Foundation is a member of Empath Health, the country’s largest not-for-profit health system delivering non-acute care and services through its skilled, medical and holistic programs to individuals with chronic, advanced and terminal illnesses or experiencing grief throughout North Central, West Central and Southwest Florida.
Founded in 1982 to support the mission of Suncoast Hospice, the Suncoast Hospice Foundation works to ensure the programs and services of Pinellas County-based Empath Health members continue so that anyone who needs their services can receive them. These programs include Suncoast Hospice, Empath Home Health, EPIC, Suncoast PACE and the Auer Szabo Empath Adult Day Center.
There are many ways to give back through the Suncoast Hospice Foundation including donating items to one of our three Suncoast Hospice Resale Shops, volunteering your time at a special event, including the Foundation in your estate plans or through a financial gift. Whatever your donation, we are grateful for your support and every gift makes a different.
As a member of Empath Health, Suncoast Hospice Foundation upholds the following mission, vision and values:
Unified in empathy, we serve our communities through extraordinary Full Life Care for all.
Redefine healthcare as Full Life Care.
At Empath Health, we hold ourselves to an intrinsic set of values that guides our everyday actions. Each, an expression of the empathy we find essential. Each, a pathway to achieving real, human connection. Each, a demonstration of our heartfelt compassion for the full lives we serve and those we serve alongside.
Eternally Hopeful
We are dedicated to being a source of inspiration in people’s lives by offering renewed empowerment through choice, ongoing encouragement through positivity and personal dignity through the respect deserving of every stage in life.
Profoundly Helpful
We are here to provide unwavering support to ALL people, through every moment possible, with the same level of attention, understanding and insight fundamental to the great outcomes we strive to provide to everyone we serve.
Lovingly Truthful
We are here to offer guidance, by listening with open minds, engaging with open arms and enlightening with the genuine, open and honest communication essential to building understanding, trust and ultimately, peace of mind.
Confidently Skillful
We provide the finest quality care available by insisting on a level of medical expertise that’s unrivaled, a level of excellence that’s unheard of and a belief in our mission and ourselves that’s undeniable.
Courageously Impactful
We always strive to make a difference in every life we touch by embracing every opportunity to advocate for people’s needs, adapt to meet life’s challenges and innovate to continue a history of leading healthcare forward.