Free hospice for Indy’s homeless
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Tucked away between East 46th Street and North Keystone Avenue, sits the Abbie Hunt Bryce Home . The home cares for the terminally ill at no cost to those in need.
The Abbie Hunt Bryce Home is run by nonprofit Morning Light Inc. and is the second-largest like it in the country, following one home located in New York City.
It’s been around for 20 years and overall has cared for 900 people in need. It receives no government funding and partners with local hospitals and hospices to care for 12 people at a time.
Each resident receives a private room with Jack and Jill bathrooms, direct access to a large garden, and access to kitchens, living rooms, and family spaces. Staff at the house provides full time care to each of the residents and leadership aims to ensure staff is well taken care of, too.
“So they come and they stay here for absolutely zero dollars,” Madison Wood-Gonzalez, Morning Light’s executive director, said. “We are free, completely community supported, we don’t require insurance, or any sort of payment.”