Seacoast Hospice Mission: To provide comprehensive physical, emotional, and spiritual care for individuals and families promoting the highest quality of living during life-limiting illnesses and bereavement.

Description:
Founded by volunteers in 1978, Seacoast Hospice remains an independent, non-profit hospice. We provide care and support for patients and families who have been affected by a life-limiting illness in Rockingham and Strafford Counties in New Hampshire and surrounding communities.

Additional community services provided by Seacoast Hospice:
• Bereavement programs for hospice families and the community
• Bridges program for grieving children
• Transitions, a pre-hospice program
• The Hyder Family Hospice House, an in-patient hospice facility
• Volunteer program with hospice training
• Education and community outreach programs

The hospice philosophy asserts that death is a universal fact of life and dying is a normal process. Hospice exists not to postpone or hasten death, but to use special skills and therapies to help the patient and family live as fully as possible.

History:
Founded in 1978 by volunteers, Seacoast Hospice was the first Hospice in New Hampshire offering emotional, social, and spiritual care to the dying and bereaved. In 1990, Seacoast Hospice became state licensed and Medicare-certified to provide the Medicare Hospice Benefit. In 1995, Seacoast Hospice acquired Strafford Hospice Care allowing us to serve both Rockingham and Strafford counties. In 2006, Seacoast Hospice opened the state’s largest in-patient hospice facility, the Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover, NH. To this day, Seacoast Hospice has remained a true community owned hospice due to the dedication and caring of its volunteers.

Contact person: Janet Prescott, Associate Director, Community Relations & Development, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (603) 772-7692

Address:

Exeter: 10 Hampton Road Exeter, NH 03833 (See a map)

Directions:

Take route 95/101 or route 108 to Exeter. Proceed to route 27.Seacost Hospice is on route 27 or Hampton Road in Exeter. Churchill Greenhouse is next door.

Miscellaneous Information

Name of Executive Director (or equivalent) if not listed above:
	Susan Cole
Type of organization
	Nonprofit 501(c)3
Is your organization a Health and Human Service agency?
	Yes