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Life with Care and Dignity

Regardless of personal or financial circumstances, every individual
deserves access to care and dignity. When nearing the end of life’s journey, or
encountering a significant medical procedure, we believe the vulnerable among
us should be able to find the support they need from their communities in order
to pass on or move forward. This is the driving principle behind Morning Light’s
award winning Abbie Hunt Bryce Home in Indianapolis.

As an organization, we’ve created models to foster nonprofit community
services and programs for those who are terminally ill, as well as others
with limited means in need of health, wellness or end of life care. Our
model is efficient and cost-effective. We can demonstrate when
structured properly (most often with 6-8 rooms in a home-like setting),
free residential hospice care can operate at, or near, a net-zero cost.
Support from fundraising, endowments, state Medicaid and healthcare
partnerships can all work to make this vision a reality. Again, there is no
direct charge to patients for their living accommodations.

The services modeled by Morning Light’s Abbie Hunt Bryce Home represent a
complementary program that any provider can implement in order to better
serve the community. Our goal is to work with healthcare organizations,
community stakeholders and government leaders to increase availability
of this much-needed service.

Our model includes on-site trained CNAs who act as caregivers and other
medical professionals. They collaborate to help patients in need of hospice care,
as well as patients who need temporary living accommodations and monitoring,
with health provider oversight. We are not a shelter. All admissions must have
some medical need to stay at the Home. We’ve proven through experience
that hospice and recovering patient populations, such as non-hospice
palliative care patients who are still receiving treatments, can live under
one roof with no significant issues. In fact, in a major pilot program, 82% of
these admissions successfully completed their stay and achieved discharge
goals while the Home continued to serve its core hospice residents.