I can't say enough good about these people. They exceeded my expectations in every way…read more Compassionate, helpful, professional, caring, efficient -- they were wonderful to us during my wife's hospice time.

I had many experiences with St. E's hospice when it was at the hospital. My father-in-law and…read moreboth my grandparents were patients in hospice and they received excellent care. I have only one experience with the off-site hospice. My mother suffered for two years with inoperable colon cancer and died in 2007. I cannot say enough about the travelling hospice staff, they were god-sends. They were compassionate, professional and helpful. When the end came, I was grateful to the travelling staff who were so good to my mother and my family. That said, the staff at the physical hospice were a totally different manner. Mother had been told by the travelling nursing staff that when the time came that she felt that it was time, that she was to call and come in. She did just as she had been instructed. She called the hospice and then called me to come and get her. She signed all the forms and instructed the staff that I was the contact person since I was her only child and I was the person who brought her in. This was at 2 AM in the morning. At 8:00 AM in the morning I got a call from my mother's younger sister. She had received my message about Mom and gone first thing over to the hospice and discovered Mom crying uncontrollably. She had been told by the social worker that, and I quote, "She wasn't dying fast enough" and that as the nearby nursing homes were full, she would be sent to one in Pendleton Co.! She had only been there 6 hrs and she was being told that she wasn't dying fast enough and would be shipped like a sack of rotten potatoes to a nursing home in another county. The staff had no explanation why they would spring such information on a dying woman without calling in the family member who brought her in. There was no excuse for telling a woman whose cancer was so severe that it not only was attacking every organ in her body but was literally breaking through the skin, a woman who at 5'6" only weighed 65 lbs. that she wasn't dying quick enough. Long story short, my mother died in my home with her family by her side. I only wish that in her final days that the in-house staff of St. E's hospice could have treated her with the kindness and dignity she deserved. Were I rating the travelling staff, I would give them a 5. The in-house staff at the physical hospice, I would give a 1.

So many exceptional staff; we hesitate to name them (afraid that we will inadvertently leave…read moresomeone out), but we do have to give a special shout out to Steve Clay, the kitchen manager, who goes out of his way to ensure that everyone ( including those of us on special diets) receive nutritious and varied meals. So important in the healing process!

do not work here or send your loved ones here. i am a worker here and the workers are snobby and…read morerude, and they are outrageously rude to the residents here. the workers put on a show for people who come visit their loved ones, all the nice, and happy, and smiles you see is all fake! today October 23, 2025 a nurse here was telling other nurses that a resident here was not liking the idea of him have a catheter, so he got upset and was saying he didn't want it on himself, and he was moving around, and the nurse told the other nurses she snatched him by his feet and yanked him to the edge of the bed and yelled at him in his face "you're going to keep this f**king catheter on rather you like it or not" she was demonstrating how she was pulling him as if she was proud of herself. this is a elderly who has pain and is fragile!!!! anything that you accidentally missed of your loved ones belongings after they've passed away, the nurses either throw the items away or give them to other residents or take them home for themselves.... to me that is just very disrespectful. about 2 weeks or so ago, i over heard a resident telling a nurse that another nurse slapped her in the face :( this place is just awful, and it's too expensive.