| Hospice Houses
Cornerstone Hospice Houses are staffed around the clock by Hospice nurses and nursing assistants. They offer care to patients who have a limited or frail caregiver or no one at all. Services include residential, inpatient, and respite care. Any patient from any where in the world can be admitted to any of our hospice houses. The fee is determined on a Sliding Scale based on income and assets. While there are plans for Hospice Houses in all geographic areas covered by Cornerstone Hospice, our Hospice Houses are now located in Lake and Sumter counties:

Frank and Helen DeScipio House
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Six Private Bedrooms
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Opened in 1991 as second hospice house in Florida
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Named for a founding Operations Board member
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Serves patients and families in Lake County and surrounding area
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To view a slide show of the Frank and Helen DeScipio House, click here

The Villages Hospice House
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Twelve private bedrooms
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Opened in 2003
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Golf cart accessible within The Villages
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Bedside internet access and many other conveniences
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Children’s playroom for visitors
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The Villages Serenity Center at The Villages Hospice House
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Quiet retreat for meditation, prayer and/or spiritual services
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Calm, peaceful setting for reflection and meditation
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Serves patients and families in north Lake and Sumter Counties and surrounding areas
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To view a slide show of The Villages Hospice House, click here

The Mike Conley Hospice House
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Ten Private Bedrooms
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Opened October 2007
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State-of-the-art conveniences
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Sits on land donated by South Lake Hospital
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Serves patients and families in south Lake County and the surrounding region
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To view a slide show of The Mike Conley Hospice House click here and press Play button

The Lane Purcell House
- 2294 CR 526E, Sumterville, FL 33585
- Eight Private Bedrooms
- Opened in 2009
- Sits on land donated by Glenn Wade, Dr. Lowell Clark, and John Manning
- Serves patients and families in south Sumter County and surrounding areas.
- To view a slide show of the Lane Purcell House, click here
Inpatient Care - Highlands County

Cornerstone Hospice Inpatient Care in partnership with The Palms of Sebring in Highlands County offers acute, short-term Hospice care during periods of crisis for symptom management. Patients may be living at The Palms of Sebring or in their own home, assisted living facility, independent care facility or nursing home to be referred for this service. At Cornerstone Hospice Inpatient Care at The Palms, patients receive Hospice services in a supportive, home-like environment which helps make each day a meaningful experience and offers guidance and support to those who share their lives.
This coordinated approach of care can benefit individuals:
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Who are experiencing a period of crisis
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Who need follow-up to hospitalization
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Who need aggressive pain and symptom management
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Who require treatments or medications that are complex, including infusions
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and IV therapy
Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance cover this care.
To view a slide show of The Palms of Sebring, click here and
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Cornerstone Hospice Inpatient Care
At The Palms of Sebring
725 South Pine Street
Sebring, Florida 33870
863-382-4563


At the Cornerstone Inpatient Suites, located at Winter Park Towers, a charming retirement community on the shores of beautiful Lake Berry in Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando, our goal is to provide a short-term, comprehensive, inpatient level of care which helps with pain and symptom management. The patient is then usually able to return home or to his or her previous familiar setting.
Patients receive their care in a supportive, home-like environment which helps make each day a meaningful experience and which offers guidance and support to those who share their lives.
Our coordinated approach to care benefits individuals:
• Who are experiencing a period of crisis • Who need follow-up to hospitalization • Who can benefit from aggressive pain and symptom management • Who require treatments or medications that are complex, including infusions and IV therapy
Our Hospice team of Physicians, Nurses, CNAs, Social Workers, and Chaplains prepare a personalized care plan with each individual and his/her family or caregivers. The goal of the patient’s care plan may be to get symptoms under control or to see that person through his/her course of treatment.
To be eligible for Cornerstone Inpatient Suites, an individual need only: • Be facing a serious, life-limiting illness; and • Need short-term acute pain or symptom management; or, • Require alternative care following hospitalization
To view a slide show of Winter Park Towers Cornerstone Inpatient Suites, click here
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Cornerstone Inpatient Suites at Winter park Towers 1111 South Lakemont Avenue Winter Park, FL 32792
866-742-6655 Fax: 866-303-1184 admissions@cornerstonehospice.org
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