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Monte also served as the Board Secretary in

Monte Hanks, then Client Services Director of Fourth Street and current employee of The INN Between, had spent over 20 years working on a local and national level to ensure that the term “Medical Respite” was recognized for our unsheltered population paving the way for a program providing hospice and medical respite for the homeless to be recognized.

Outlined below are some of this committee’s key players. This powerhouse committee came together to ensure that no one died alone on our streets.

Integral knowledge came from many individuals already operating a nonprofit helping the homeless experiencing medical crises, like Fourth Street Clinic. The committee included people from all walks of life: government agencies, nonprofits, hospice agencies, the medical community, chaplains, homeless service providers, and concerned citizens. Thorpe launched a monthly committee meeting with a growing attendance. It was Deborah who had the inspiration to create a “hospice for the homeless,” a home that would offer compassion, peace, safety, dignity, and most importantly, access to hospice care, a critical end-of-life medical service that can’t be delivered in shelters, motels, or encampments.įrom that conversation, Ms. When others would ask her if she worked with individuals experiencing homelessness, Debbie responded that she was frequently frustrated and unable to come up with a suitable placement because hospice can’t be delivered in shelters or on the streets. In early 2010, while working at her local church’s food bank, a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Deborah Thorpe, was recounting how she frequently cared for homeless patients with late-stage cancer. As we have been exposing residents to compassion, dignity, and respect, we wanted to expose the community to our roots and how we first came to be, exposing all the visionaries and their service to starting The INN Between.

Have you ever wondered how this work all got started? How The INN Between went from an idea to a 16- bed social model hospice, to a 50-bed assisted living facility where individuals experiencing homelessness can come to recuperate from illness and injury or come to pass away peacefully at the end of life? It is a great question, especially since there were no other models or programs for us to learn from.