About Us
In 1981, Hospice of Bowling Green opened with an all-volunteer
staff. In addition to addressing the physical, emotional and
spiritual needs of terminally ill patients with a limited life
expectancy -- as the patients prepared to die in their homes (where
they would feel most comfortable and secure) – caring hospice
workers also provided emotional and spiritual support to the
patients’ families.
As time went on, the hospice staff evolved into a paid workforce. In
2006, the organization, which had years before changed its name to
Hospice of Southern Kentucky, moved from a small house near downtown
Bowling Green into its present location at 5872 Scottsville Road. On
the site, Hospice of Southern Kentucky opened the 10-bed inpatient
Hospice Center on August 1, 2008. In what is only the third
residential hospice in Kentucky, the staff of the home-like Hospice
Center are now able to offer the kind of physical, emotional and
spiritual care that also remains a trademark of the Hospice of
Southern Kentucky home hospice care program.
Hospice of Southern Kentucky now has more than 40 employees, as well
as a group of well-trained volunteers, all of whom work together to
help ease the loneliness and fear of death.
