Our Lady of Peace Hospice and Home Health Care to mark 80 years of service

Shannon Brault, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
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Dec. 6—The Our Lady of Peace Hospice and Home Health Care building's exterior will be lit up with stars and angels on Tuesday in memory of the more than 25,000 people who have passed away in their care in the last 80 years.

The event will take place at 5 p.m. at the 2076 St. Anthony Ave. building in St. Paul. Both former and current staff and families served by the hospice residence will light candles at the event and there will be a performance by the Minnesota Chorale.

Our Lady of Peace, then Our Lady of Good Counsel, opened on Dec. 7, 1941, by a small group of Catholic Dominican Hawthorne nuns. Their mission was to care for the "cancerous poor" as their founder, Rose Hawthorne did in the late 1800s in New York.

They operated on donations and had no medical background, but soon committed to learning end-of-life care, which is now wider known as hospice.

Our Lady of Peace provides care at no cost, "beyond what is covered by Medicare, to people of all faiths, or no faith, regardless of circumstances," according to the organization.

"Providing hospice care to the communities of St. Paul and Minneapolis through our residential hospice or community-based services allows for patients and family members to benefit from our hospice services and have a peaceful transition at end of life," Our Lady of Peace COO Kim Cash said in a statement. "We are here to help at end-of-life and following a person's passing."

For more information, visit Our Lady of Peace's website.