Hospice Care in Madison Heights, Michigan
Compassionate, home-based end-of-life care for Madison Heights families — from a hospice based right next door.
When a family in Madison Heights reaches the point of considering hospice, the questions usually come fast and all at once. Is it too early? Will Medicare cover it? Can Dad stay in his own home? How quickly can someone actually come? Those questions deserve clear, direct answers — not a brochure.
St. Marie's Hospice serves Madison Heights from our headquarters just minutes away in Lathrup Village. We're not a national chain routing your call through a regional hub three counties over. We're a local, Medicare-certified hospice, and Madison Heights is part of the community we serve every week.
Home-Based Hospice Care in Madison Heights
Madison Heights sits in southern Oakland County — a dense, working community of roughly 30,000 residents, bordered by Royal Oak, Hazel Park, Troy, and Warren. Many of the families here have lived in the same homes for decades, and when serious illness enters the picture, most want the same thing: to keep their loved one at home, comfortable, surrounded by the familiar. That's exactly what hospice at St. Marie's is built around.
Our care comes to the patient — in a house off John R, in an apartment near the Madison Heights border with Royal Oak, in an assisted living community, or in a skilled nursing facility. Wherever your loved one lives, the care is delivered there. There's no requirement to move them to a facility to receive full hospice support.
In practical terms, that means a nurse at the door within 24 hours of the first call, equipment delivered the same week, and a consistent care team rather than a rotating set of strangers.
What the First Call Actually Involves
Most families put off the first call longer than they should — usually because they’re afraid of what it means. There’s a common worry that calling a hospice commits you to something, or signals that you’ve "given up." Neither is true.
The first call is a conversation. One of our intake coordinators talks with you about what's happening — the diagnosis, how things are changing at home, what the doctors have said. If hospice sounds appropriate, we schedule an in-home evaluation at no cost. If it isn't the right moment yet, we'll say so plainly and point you toward the support that does fit.
What usually happens after a family finally makes that call: relief. Not because anything has been decided, but because for the first time in months, they're not carrying it alone.
The Care Team That Comes to You
Every patient enrolled with St. Marie's receives care from a full interdisciplinary team:
One thing worth knowing when comparing providers: with larger hospice organizations, the aide who visits Monday often isn't the one who comes Thursday. For patients with dementia especially, that rotation is disorienting. We work to keep the same team members with each patient, because continuity in hospice isn't a nicety — it affects the quality of care itself.
Conditions We Care For
We provide hospice care for advanced and terminal stages of cancer, heart failure, COPD, dementia and Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney and liver disease, ALS, and other serious illnesses. The full list is on our conditions page.
Eligibility depends on the stage of the illness, not the diagnosis itself. If you're not sure whether your loved one qualifies, that's the exact question a free in-home evaluation answers — with no obligation to proceed either way.
Medicare-Certified, CHAP-Accredited, and Local
St. Marie's has been Medicare-certified since 2015 and holds voluntary accreditation through the Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) — a standard that goes beyond federal requirements. Our quality scores are publicly reported through Medicare's Care Compare tool, so you can verify them yourself rather than take our word for it.
For Madison Heights families weighing their options, that combination is the point: a hospice that's genuinely local and independently held to a documented standard of care. You don't have to choose between the two.