The Visiting Nurse Association of Texas, which has offered hospice services for decades, is planning to extend those services to provide free end-of-life care for Dallas-Fort Worth’s most vulnerable residents.
The home healthcare non-profit announced details of its new VNA Hospice House in Dallas’ Wilson Historic District on Wednesday, October 22, during a preview event at the facility. It’s the first and only dedicated home in North Texas to give seriously ill patients lacking either suitable housing, financial means or an appropriate caregiver a “safe place to die with dignity and respect,” the VNA said.
“The patients will be people who have no home, or no caregiver if they are at home, or they have unsafe living conditions at home,” said Kyle Francis, the VNA’s director of donor relations and grants…