Hospice

The mission of the Center for Hope is to provide terminally ill patients with the natural, humane and holistic kind of care known as hospice. The Center respects and supports individual's right to live out the remainder of their life with dignity and in comfort, surrounded by the love of their family. The Center works to enhance the life remaining to an individual by freeing both the patient and family from any distress, be it physical, emotional, financial, spiritual, or social.

From their hospital beginnings, Peggy and Father Hudson took their hospice team into the private sector. There, they believed they would have greater control and the much needed flexibility to make their program work. And, so they grew. From rented office space in Union to the Sauer House in Roselle, donated by the family of one of its first patients, the Center has expanded to three locations in Elizabeth, Scotch Plains, and Linden.

A sincere faith in the rightness of what they were doing and the support of equally faithful followers have enabled the Center to evolve into much more than either of its founders could have foreseen. The Center for Hope has become a source of comfort and hope that has changed thousands of people's lives forever. Though it has not been an easy evolution , things have worked out. Peggy and Father Hudson will tell you. "Where one door closed, another opened. When bills appeared to be insurmountable , the funds appeared to be insurmountable, the funds came in." Clearly, the Center for Hope was meant to be. Because it's needed and it works.