Offering You the Very Best Palliative Care, Hospice Care, and Grief Support
West Michigan’s most trusted and utilized provider of palliative care, hospice care, and grief support since 1983.
Compassionate Care and Support When You Need It Most
At Harbor Palliative Care, Harbor Hospice, and the Scolnik Healing Center, we put the needs of our patients and their families first. Our expertise is providing relief from pain, symptoms of serious illness, and medication side effects, as well as emotional and spiritual support. We assist patients who are continuing treatments or transitioning to hospice care and offer life-changing grief support for adults and children.
Palliative Care
If you are struggling with the symptoms of a serious illness or the side effects of medical treatments, and you want to continue to treat your medical condition, call our Palliative Care team. They will work in partnership with you and your doctor and offer you options for care that will help you feel better so you can resume activities that are important to you like attending a grandchild’s wedding or playing cards with friends. Patients can continue receiving palliative care for as long as they choose.
Hospice Care
When the life of your loved one is no longer going to be measured in years, maybe not even in months, our hospice team is uniquely qualified to bring that person the comfort and peace of mind they seek. Our specially trained staff and volunteers go wherever our patients are, anywhere in our five-county region, whether they live at home or in a home-like setting.
Using a combination of traditional medications along with therapies such as art, massage, and music, our specially trained hospice care team can help make a dying patient’s quality of life better and provide support to those who surround that patient.
When dying at home isn’t the best option for a patient, many choose to move to our lovely Leila & Cyrus Poppen Hospice Residence in Muskegon. This gracious center has fourteen private rooms for patients and is the only residential hospice in our region. It is staffed 24 hours a day with warm, caring, specially trained staff who surround each patient with peace and comfort.
If you’re considering hospice care for yourself or someone close to you, call us now. There is no need to wait. And the sooner you call, the sooner we can be there for you. We’ll help you make a plan so that the end of life can be the best life possible, for as long as possible.
Grief Support
At the Scolnik Healing Center, our grief counselors help children and adults cope with loss. Understanding that everyone grieves differently, we offer individual counseling, group gatherings, and a library of reading materials.
We also offer supportive, fun events like Cooking for One classes for those who have lost a spouse or partner and face an empty chair at the dinner table each night, as well as a three-day camp in June for children who have lost a loved one.
Your Journey, On Your Terms, With Our Support.
Since accepting our first patient in 1983, we have lived our mission every day—to provide expert care with compassion and support for people facing a serious illness, nearing the end of their life, or struggling with the loss of someone they love. Thanks to generous donors and broad community support, we never turn away a patient who cannot pay for care.
Offering the Best Palliative Care, Hospice Care, and Grief Support.
Harbor Hospice was the first in the region to offer professional hospice care and today remains the most trusted, most utilized hospice care provider in West Michigan. We put you first, always. Our care is our mission and our specialty. It is what we do twenty-four hours a day. For each staff person and each volunteer, it is a calling.
Harbor Hospice is a not-for-profit organization that has been serving patients and their families for more than forty years. We include under our not-for-profit umbrella Harbor Palliative Care and our Bob and Merle Scolnik Healing Center.
When you choose Harbor Hospice, Harbor Palliative Care, or our grief counselors at the Scolnik Healing Center, you get a dedicated team and a specialized blend of their skill, expertise, and compassion personalized for you. We believe you deserve the best care, and when you call us, you get the best care.
We are proud to be a United Way Agency, accredited by The Joint Commission and recognized as a top achiever in the We Honor Veterans program.
Choose the Best
“Hospice comes when I call…” That’s what we hear as we walk alongside our patients and their families through each step of their journey. We believe you deserve the best care. From the beginning, that has been our mission and for each of us – staff members and volunteers – it is our calling.
Harbor Hospice is a not-for-profit organization that has been serving patients and their families since 1983. We include under our not-for-profit umbrella Harbor Palliative Care and our Bob and Merle Scolnik Healing Center.
When you choose Harbor Hospice, Harbor Palliative Care, or our grief counselors at the Scolnik Healing Center, you get a dedicated team and their specialized blend of skill, expertise, compassion, and commitment, which has been expanded and fine-tuned over the past 40 years.
You want the best care for you or for your loved one. We want that, too. And when you call us, you get the best care.
