Hospice Care in Oak Park, Michigan.
Home-based end-of-life care for Oak Park families — from a hospice based just next door.
Most families come to hospice at the end of a long, tiring stretch — a hard hospital stay, a doctor's difficult conversation, or the slow realization that a loved one isn't getting better no matter what's tried. At that point, what you need is a straight answer about what happens next, not a sales pitch.
St. Marie's Hospice serves Oak Park from our headquarters in neighboring Lathrup Village — close enough that "local" isn't a marketing word here, it's a fact. We're a Medicare-certified, CHAP-accredited hospice, not a national chain routing your call through a regional office three counties away, and Oak Park families are part of the community we serve every week.
Home-Based Hospice Care in Oak Park
Oak Park is a dense, close-knit Oakland County community of roughly 29,000 residents, bordered by Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Southfield, and our home city of Lathrup Village. It's a community with deep roots and a significant population of older adults who've lived in the same homes for decades — and when serious illness arrives, most families want the same thing: to keep their loved one there, comfortable, surrounded by what's familiar.
That's what hospice at St. Marie's is built around. Care comes to the patient — in a home off Nine Mile or Coolidge, in a senior community, or in a skilled nursing facility. Wherever your loved one lives, the full hospice team comes to them. There's no need to move a patient into a facility to receive complete hospice support.
Because our office is so close, this isn't an abstract claim. In practical terms, it means a nurse at the door within 24 hours of your first call, equipment delivered the same week, and a care team your family gets to know — not a rotating set of unfamiliar faces driving in from somewhere else.
What the First Call Involves
Most families wait longer than they should to call, usually out of fear about what it means. There's a common worry that reaching out to a hospice locks you into something irreversible, or signals giving up. Neither is true.
The first call is simply a conversation. One of our intake coordinators talks through what's happening — the diagnosis, how things have been changing at home, what the doctors have said. If hospice seems appropriate, we schedule a free in-home evaluation. If it isn't the right time yet, we'll say so honestly and point you toward what does fit right now.
What usually happens once a family finally makes that call: relief. Nothing is decided or locked in — but for the first time in a while, they’re not carrying it alone.
The Care Team That Comes to You
Every patient enrolled with St. Marie’s receives care from a complete interdisciplinary team:
One detail worth knowing when comparing hospices: with larger 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 in hospice, continuity isn’t a courtesy — it directly affects the quality of care.
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 illness, not the diagnosis itself. If you're unsure whether your loved one qualifies — especially with a condition like dementia, where the criteria are less obvious — a free in-home evaluation answers the question, with no obligation either way.
Medicare-Certified, CHAP-Accredited, Right Next Door
St. Marie's has been Medicare-certified since 2015 and holds voluntary accreditation through the Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) — a standard beyond federal minimums. Our quality scores are publicly reported through Medicare's Care Compare tool, so Oak Park families can verify our record independently rather than take our word for it. For a community this close to our headquarters, the choice isn't between a local hospice and a well-credentialed one. It's both, and it's already right next door.
Serving Oak Park and the Surrounding Area
Along with Oak Park, we serve families throughout southern Oakland County and the surrounding communities — including Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Berkley, Southfield, Royal Oak, Madison Heights, and Lathrup Village.
Not sure whether your loved one's address falls within our service area? Call and ask. We'll give you a direct answer.
Talk With Our Team
18211 W. 12 Mile Road, Suite 2SE Lathrup Village, MI 48076 — serving Oak Park and Oakland County
Or reach us through our contact page. The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If hospice is the right step for your family, we’ll tell you clearly. If it isn’t yet, we’ll tell you that too — and help you understand what to watch for next.