Hospice Care in Taylor, Michigan
Compassionate, home-based end-of-life care for Taylor families across Wayne County’s Downriver community.
When a family in Taylor first starts thinking about hospice, it's rarely a calm, planned decision. It usually comes after a hard hospital stay, a doctor's difficult conversation, or the slow realization that a loved one isn't getting better. The questions come all at once — and what families need at that moment is straight answers, not a sales pitch.
St. Marie's Hospice serves families throughout Taylor and the Downriver area with Medicare-certified, CHAP-accredited hospice care delivered right where your loved one lives. We're a local Michigan hospice — not a national chain — and Wayne County families are part of the community we care for every week.
Hospice Care Where You Live
Home-Based Hospice Care in Taylor
Taylor is one of the larger cities in Wayne County's Downriver region — home to roughly 60,000 residents, bordered by Dearborn Heights, Allen Park, Southgate, Romulus, and Westland. It's a settled, family-oriented community, and when serious illness arrives, most Taylor families want the same thing: to keep their loved one at home, comfortable and surrounded by the familiar, for as long as possible.
Practically, that means a nurse at the door within 24 hours of your first call, medical equipment delivered the same week, and a consistent care team your family comes to know — not a rotating set of unfamiliar faces.
That's the heart of what hospice at St. Marie's provides. Our care comes to the patient — in a home near Heritage Park, in a house off Eureka or Telegraph, in an assisted living 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 care.
What the First Call Involves
Most families wait longer than they should to make the first call — usually out of fear about what it means. There's a common worry that phoning a hospice commits you to something irreversible, or means you're giving up. Neither is true.
The first call is simply a conversation. One of our intake coordinators talks with you about what's happening — the diagnosis, how things are changing at home, what the physicians have said. If hospice seems appropriate, we arrange a free in-home evaluation. If it isn't the right time yet, we'll tell you honestly and point you toward the support that fits where your loved one is now.
What usually happens after the evaluation: families say they wish they’d called sooner. Not because we told them to — because they experience the difference between managing alone and having a full team behind them, and the contrast is immediate.
The Care Team That Comes to You
Every patient enrolled with St. Marie's receives care from a full interdisciplinary team.
One detail worth knowing when comparing hospices: with larger organizations, the aide who visits on Monday often isn’t the one who comes Thursday. For patients with dementia especially, that constant rotation is unsettling and disorienting. We work hard 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 the 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, and Local
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 Taylor families can verify our record independently rather than take our word for it. If you're weighing more than one provider, our guide on how to compare hospice providers walks through exactly what to look for — the metrics that matter and the questions worth asking any hospice serving the Downriver area.
Serving Taylor and the Downriver Community
Along with Taylor, we serve families throughout Wayne County and the surrounding Downriver communities — including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Allen Park, Southgate, Romulus, Westland, Wyandotte, and Lincoln Park.
Not sure whether your loved one's address falls within our service area? Call and ask. We'll give you a direct answer.
Talk to St. Marie’s Hospice
18211 W. 12 Mile Road, Suite 2SE Lathrup Village, MI 48076 serving Taylor and Wayne 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.