Faith & Hope Hospice & Palliative Care is a family-owned hospice center in Los Angeles that offers quality end of life care. We are a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, accredited by The Joint Commission, and We Honor Veterans- Level 1 certified.
Faith & Hope was first established in 2007 out of a little office in Burbank, CA. We now serve Burbank, Pasadena, Los Angeles, and the surrounding communities.
Meeting the psychosocial needs of our patients is our priority. We provide comfortable care wherever our patients live by using a holistic approach toward their illnesses. We also recognize that tending to the family’s emotional needs is as crucial as the patient’s needs. That’s why we are considered one of the best hospice centers serving Pasadena, CA.
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Faith & Hope Hospice & Palliative Care seeks to be the premier provider of hospice, palliative, and bereavement care in Los Angeles County and the surrounding areas.
Our goal is to improve the quality of life of people facing life-limiting and terminal illness, provide support to their loved ones, and transform the community at large by utilizing an interdisciplinary, holistic approach.
We achieve our goal through our Circle of Care:
We strive to provide the highest quality hospice and palliative care. To ensure we achieve this goal, we’ve obtained numerous certifications above the standard requirements. These certifications show that Faith & Hope Hospice & Palliative Care meets the highest standards of professional practice with objective validation of our expertise in hospice and palliative care. Our license and certifications include:
Our staff hold some of the highest certifications in their fields as well, including:
Other staff at our hospice in Los Angeles are actively working towards certification in their disciplines as well.
We fully embrace Dame Cicely Saunders, grandmother to the modern hospice movement, when she said, “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.”
We recognize a person’s right to self-determination, to make decisions for themselves. We see it as our duty to be ready, qualified, and educated to provide any and all end of life care options available, and to treat each person with the compassion deserved at this difficult time of life.
Because we serve our patients and their families, it is important to understand who their family is and what they need. Families are more diverse and complex than years past. We support not only biological and married relatives but also anyone the patient considers family or anyone important to them.
Education is vital. By educating our staff we are better able to provide quality care and educating the community helps them access the services that will most benefit them. We provide a comprehensive orientation for new employees, provide peer mentors, and offer frequent in-service trainings. We also encourage ongoing professional education via books, videos, classes, and conferences.
We offer specialized training sessions to the staff at assisted living and skilled nursing facilities where some of our patients live. This helps their staff provide the specialized care that benefits our patients and engenders a sense of competence for those providing care. Additionally, we offer training to the community at large, like self-care and mindfulness meditation workshops, info sessions about hospice & palliative care, advance care planning, and more. We are available for group training sessions, presentations, and written and online materials. Call us for more details at (626) 869-2151
Facing life-limiting and terminal illnesses, as well as grief, can be difficult for anyone. There is room for joy, though. Managing symptoms, addressing patient and family goals, and improving quality of life allows joy to exist even in the most challenging of times.
Joy can come in many forms, from the engaging personality of staff members to patients going through family photo albums and telling family stories. We also help reduce symptoms so that our patients engage in activities that are really important, like teaching a grandchild how to make the perfect eggplant parmesan or finish writing that novel that’s been a lifelong goal. We also offer music therapy and pet therapy to help bring more joy into the patient’s life.
Faith and Hope Hospice and Palliative Care is involved and engaged with our community. We achieve this by partnering with other agencies that are making a difference in our community. For example, we host annual food drives to support local non-profits and an annual toy drive for children facing life-limiting illness. We also work with the Dream Foundation, an organization that serves terminally ill patients and their families by making their life-long dreams come true.
Our volunteer program seeks to connect those who want to serve with people who need it the most. We have a wide range of opportunities including helping the staff at the office or direct care to our patients and families. As a volunteer for Faith and Hope Hospice, you can help provide inspiration, comfort, and closure to terminally ill individuals and their loved ones, and provide support to the hospice team which will allow them to provide even better care.
We also tailor our care to the communities we serve by providing specialized bi-lingual & bi-cultural teams to support patients and families who speak different languages. We also have translators who can help us provide care to patients and families who speak a wide range of languages as well.
You can also find us engaging through our blog and on social media. We also publish Epilogue, a bimonthly bereavement newsletter. This is a free service we provide to our patients’ surviving family members and the community. You can download a copy here.
Faith and Hope Hospice
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to