With You Through Every Step

The Masonic Village Hospice team is dedicated to maintaining the highest quality of life attainable for our patients, no matter where they may be in life’s journey or what level of living.

What Is Hospice?

Supporting patients and their loved ones

Hospice is designed to give supportive care to individuals in the final phase of a terminal illness. Care focuses on comfort and quality of life, rather than a cure. Our goal is to enable patients to participate in their care as much as possible and to be comfortable and pain free.

What We Do

We are committed to providing compassionate end-of-life care while acknowledging the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of the patient and their family. As a team, we do our best to meet each patient’s unique personal needs.

Founded in 2009, and based in Elizabethtown, we serve patients throughout Lancaster, Dauphin, Lebanon and Eastern York counties.

What Sets Us Apart

Masonic Village Hospice is a service of Masonic Village, a continuing care retirement community, which means we have specialized knowledge and expertise when it comes to the regulations and culture of providing long-term and end-of-life care. For our patients, this means they can expect trusted and compassionate care.

  • Special Moments 
    Through the Special Moments program, Hospice staff are able to provide meaningful experiences for patients by fulfilling their end-of-life wishes, whether it be driving to see holiday lights or fall leaves, going fishing, visiting a spa, celebrating with a special anniversary dinner or attending a family wedding. These moments allow patients to celebrate and enjoy life as they are able rather than be defined by their hospice admission or diagnosis. This hospice feature program gives the patient and family one last special memory together.  

  • Volunteers By Your Side
    Our robust group of specially trained, dedicated volunteers provide meaningful services, including sharing their musical talents, bringing pets for therapy, taking patients outside for some fresh air, reading to patients and other activities. One of their most important roles is keeping vigil at patients' bedsides when their loved ones cannot be present. While our licensed staff provide care and support, our volunteers can provide valuable companionship. Medicare requires 5% of a hospice program's budgeted revenue be provided through volunteer hours, and Masonic Village Hospice is proud to exceed this requirement by providing 17.6% of its program budget through volunteer hours, to the benefit of our patients.  

  • Provider Team 
    Our medical directors and nurse practitioner are board-certified in geriatric, family and long-term care, with years of experience in palliative and hospice care.

  • Services to Complement Your Care
    Offering a smooth transition from home health services (also available at Masonic Village), our Hospice team works collaboratively with providers and closely with Masonic Village Home Care and Masonic Village Pharmacy to fulfill patients' needs. Home care is a non-medical service which supports individuals and their caregiver with daily living and household tasks. Our pharmacy will work with a patient's physician to transfer prescriptions and address insurance/billing questions, as well as offer convenient deliveries. 

  • Palliative Care
    Masonic Village Hospice's Palliative Care combines medical, pharmaceutical, dietetic, social work, spiritual and other integrative therapies to provide comfort and quality of life for patients who've received a new diagnosis or experienced a progression of a serious or terminal illness. It is intended to bridge the gap between curative treatment and end-of-life care.  

  • Honoring Veterans 
    We understand veterans face unique challenges at the end of life. Our staff take time to understand these special circumstances and feel it is our privilege to provide care to these heroes. We are also a proud participant in the We Honor Veterans program and value the importance of honoring our veteran patients in purposeful ways.  

Contact Us

Letters of Love

“I would like to thank Masonic Village Hospice for all of their help with my dad, who passed away in January. After 65 years of marriage, my mom struggles a bit, but I am completely at peace, and I think it is because of the ending we had with the help of the hospice team there. It was a difficult road, but they helped all the way. … They went above and beyond for us. My dad was in a hospital in another state. … It was clear to me that time was short, and I wanted to bring him to my home to care for him. Masonic Village Hospice obtained all of the records from the hospital. They agreed to help. They had all of the equipment here the next day and, when the ambulance arrived at my home, they sent out a nurse immediately to help us get settled. I can’t praise them enough!”

Patricia Corrao

“Mother was tenderly cared for by what our family experienced as an extraordinary team of care givers. We honor their ministry to Mother and to us. Hospice was instrumental in allowing her to end her earthly life with dignity and in peace. We are deeply grateful.”

Mary Ann Haagen

“It is with my deepest gratitude that I would like to thank each and every one of you for the compassion, kindness, spiritual and loving care that you provided to my dear mother. You do not have an easy job but God has given you a unique talent and skills, and you use them exceptionally well. I thank God every day for wonderful people like you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Peggy Ulrich Groff and Family

“We would like to thank the hospice staff for our dad’s care and their support during his decline. The team’s caring, compassion, support, knowledge and professionalism in guiding us through the dying process were above and beyond expectation. Dad enjoyed his time spent with each and every one of them. They were his family when family could not be there.”

Sally Smith

“My dear hospice friends, allow me this opportunity to thank all of you for the wonderful care you gave my wife. It was a remarkable experience, after so many years as a hospice medical director, to stand on the other side and receive your care, concern and deep compassion. I was – and remain – moved by your love. While I miss my partner of 59 years, I am comforted that she is now in God’s hands.”

George Simms

“Everyone who was involved in providing care for my wife was outstanding. All were so gracious and helpful in answering my questions, offering assistance and guiding us through my wife’s gradual dying. She received the best care imaginable. I was put at ease about caring for her so I could focus on just being with her.”

Mark Chavez

“I write on behalf of my family to thank you for the thoughtful and timely care and comfort you provided for our mother, as well as all of us. I am still struck by your timely assessment and management of mother’s status and pain. Your assurance that she would not be in pain helped me be able to really be with her as she passed. We are grateful for the support and services of hospice during these heart rendering moments, and we want to thank you for your professionalism, respectfulness and outstanding care for mother and us during our time with you.”

Anne Fox