Lakeside Hospice, Inc.  •  P.O. Box 544  •  Pell City, AL 35125
Phone 205•884•1111  •  Fax 205•884•1114  •  Toll Free 800•427•3993

Lakeside Hospice History and Mission


Lakeside Hospice is a faith-based, community supported program committed to providing and maintaining the highest quality of care to anyone who is terminally ill, regardless of their ability to pay. Lakeside Hospice has provided care to terminally ill patients and their families since March of 1991. Our agency was founded on the guiding principle of human dignity and patient’s rights, with the conviction that most people prefer to spend their final days in their home, surrounded by the people they love.

The goal of Lakeside Hospice is threefold:

  1. To provide medical care to enable the patient to remain alert, comfortable, and capable of participating in life as fully as possible for as long as possible.
  2. To provide the patient and family with as much psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual support as they may desire or need.
  3. To maintain community involvement and awareness.

Lakeside Hospice is the oldest provider of hospice services based in the St. Clair and Talladega county area and is incorporated as a 501 (C) 3 private non-profit agency. Our agency is Medicare and Medicaid certified to provide hospice services and is also a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama hospice services provider. We are an affiliate agency of the United Way of Central Alabama.

Lakeside Hospice is governed by a 16 member volunteer Board of Directors. The patient care team includes the medical director, the patient’s attending physician, nurses, home health aides, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers.

Lakeside Hospice is a community-supported program whose mission is providing care, comfort and hope to patients and supportive services to their loved ones. Lakeside Hospice is for people who want to remain in their own home, or place of residence, throughout the course of their illness. Lakeside Hospice is for people who believe they have a right to be pain free with disease symptoms managed. Lakeside Hospice is for people who are concerned about the future of their loved ones and want supportive services for their family. Above all, Lakeside Hospice is for people who want to have choices about their care.

The criteria for admission to Lakeside Hospice are:

  1. The patient is certified as being appropriate for hospice (a terminal diagnosis of 6 months prognosis as outlined by the applicable regulatory admission guidelines)
  2. The patient and family/caregiver desire Lakeside Hospice services and choose comfort measures over curative treatment
  3. The patient lives in the Lakeside Hospice service area (St. Clair and Talladega Counties as well as portions of adjoining counties—Blount, Calhoun, Coosa, Etowah, Jefferson and Shelby)

There are no other criteria. If the patient is a Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary, the standard services of Lakeside Hospice are fully covered, including all prescription medication for the primary diagnosis for hospice services. This is also true of any medical equipment or supplies needed for the patient’s comfort. If the patient has other types of health insurance coverage, Lakeside Hospice will arrange with the provider (such as HMO or private health insurance), to allow hospice care per the contracted benefit. However—NO PATIENT is denied hospice services because of lack of health care insurance. Patients are admitted to the Lakeside Hospice program based upon their need for hospice services, not on their insurance coverage status.