Albany Community Hospice

Albany Community Hospice is committed to delivering clinical excellence with loving kindness.

Our focus is on the patient and enabling them to live as well as possible until death. This includes their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing as well as supporting their family or significant others.

The original Albany Community Hospice was opened in November 1989, after a study of local needs for the care of terminally ill people indicated a need to supplement the services already being provided by the Albany Regional Hospital and Silver Chain.

Albany Community Hospice, 30 years later, remains very much community owned and funded. It is still run by a volunteer Board of Management, employs many volunteers with a variety of gifts and talents, and receives much needed funds from a wide range of community groups and individuals.

The Hospice ensures accountability at all levels of the organisation through key structures, systems and processes for the delivery of safe, effective and high quality palliative care. ACH is committed to partnering with guests, families, carers and community to identify safety and quality issues and the solutions.