{"id":343002,"date":"2025-10-30T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343002\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:25:14","slug":"hospice-care-for-homeless-people-coming-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343002\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice care for homeless people coming to Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 1896 Victorian-style house in the Wilson Historic District will be converted into a hospice house<\/a>, providing end-of-life care for homeless individuals in Dallas at no cost. <\/p>\n

The Visiting Nurse Association of Texas is a 91-year-old nonprofit organization that provides home-delivered meals free of charge to individuals unable to obtain or prepare their own meals and offers home health, hospice, and community health services. The association has partnered with The Meadows Foundation to bring the project to life. <\/p>\n

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Dallas is the largest city in the country without a program that provides these types of services for the unhoused population or those who don\u2019t have a safe place to receive end-of-life care. <\/p>\n

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Chris Culak, CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas<\/a>, said the organization has been discussing the opening of this type of space for approximately 10 years. Location was a challenge until the Meadows Foundation stepped up and agreed to provide the space in Old East Dallas at no cost. <\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Culak, CEO and President of Visiting Nurses Association is photographed inside Katherine’s House, a new hospice house for homeless in need of its services at 2800 Swiss Avenue in Dallas. A tour and photos were taken on October 28, 2025. <\/p>\n

Steve Hamm \/ Special Contributor<\/p>\n

The Wilson Historic District comprises more than 20 homes owned by the Meadows Foundation<\/a>, which provides rent-free office space to nonprofits. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea here is to provide a place for people seeking end-of-life care services, but who don\u2019t have a place to live,\u201d Culak said. \u201cA good majority of them will be homeless, some of them will be folks who just don\u2019t have a safe place to go home to, maybe they don\u2019t have a caregiver, or they don\u2019t have access to a proper space to live in while they\u2019re on hospice care. That\u2019s what this facility will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $5 million project is scheduled to kick off renovations at the home in January 2026<\/a>, and the organization plans to admit its first patients in the first quarter of 2027. <\/p>\n

The organization is privately funding the project and does not receive money from the city of Dallas. The Visiting Nurses Association works closely with organizations that serve the homeless population, such as Our Calling, Austin Bridge and The Salvation Army of North Texas, as well as Baylor Hospital, to receive referrals. <\/p>\n

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Culak said they looked into how the Malachi House, a hospice care provider in Ohio, has been providing end-of-life care for those without a place to go since 1986, serving as a role model for Dallas. <\/p>\n

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The Visiting Nurse Association plans to build a new hospice house for homeless in need of its services at 2800 Swiss Avenue in Dallas. A tour and photos of Katherine’s House were taken on October 28, 2025. <\/p>\n

Steve Hamm \/ Special Contributor<\/p>\n

This will be the first residential facility in North Texas designed for seriously ill individuals who cannot safely receive hospice care at home due to housing insecurity, lack of caregiver support or the absence of utilities and basic resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something that\u2019s needed; it\u2019s really going to benefit our homeless neighbors and friends, and it\u2019s going to benefit people who don\u2019t have a safe place to live when they need this care,\u201d Culak said. \u201cBut really, for VNA, it\u2019s just an extension of who we are as an agency, because we firmly believe that everybody should have access to good quality hospice care.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Katherine House<\/p>\n

The Katherine House, named after Katherine Krause, the former president and CEO of the Visiting Nurses Association, will accommodate five patients at a time for a two-week rotation. Each case will be treated differently. <\/p>\n

The house will be a licensed assisted-living facility staffed 24\/7. Services will include medical and nursing care, personal assistance from home health aides, social work support and access to an interdisciplinary care team consisting of a physician, case manager, social worker, volunteers and a chaplain. <\/p>\n

The care is designed to ensure comfort, dignity, and comprehensive support for patients in their final stages of life. Katherine\u2019s House will not serve pediatric patients \u2014 it is for adults only, said Jessica Austin, the association\u2019s chief development and communications officer. Kirksey Architecture designed the project.<\/a><\/p>\n

The organization aims to serve approximately 125 people annually. There will be four patient rooms, a living\/dining room, a reception area, and a staff work area. Behind the house, the cottage will house the kitchen, laundry room and other amenities for staff to use. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really heartbreaking when you see someone who can\u2019t be safely discharged to a place or they can\u2019t go to a shelter, because they really can\u2019t provide care like this in a shelter,\u201d Austin said. \u201cAnd it just is like a vicious cycle of admitting to the hospital and being discharged, and it\u2019s not good for the hospital, for caregivers who want to provide this service where there\u2019s no safe place, and it\u2019s obviously the worst for the patient.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1896 Victorian-style house in the Wilson Historic District will be converted into a hospice house, providing end-of-life…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,14841,14052,21678,1141,7265,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-343002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-city-hall","11":"tag-downtown-dallas","12":"tag-equity","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-homelessness","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115462873947099979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}