• What is Hospice Care

What is Hospice Care?

Hospice is a unique philosophy of health care for patients with a life-limiting illness who are no longer seeking curative treatment. It focuses on enhancing the quality of a patient's life while also providing support to their family.

• Gilchrist Kids

Gilchrist Kids

By providing relief from physical, emotinal, social, and spiritual suffering, Gilchrist Kids allows seriously ill children to "live well" during their last weeks and days and provides their loved ones the support they need during this difficult time.

• Music Therapy

Gilchrist Music Therapist shows client guitar before a session begins

Music Therapy

Gilchrist Hospice Care now has a music therapy program.

•What is myGilchrist?

What is mygilchrist?

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• The Gilchrist Blog

The gilchrist blog

Read more about Gilchrist Hospice Care on our blog and come back often for the latest posts!

• We Honor Veterans

We Honor Veterans

Gilchrist has partnered with the NHPCO and our local Department of Veterans Affairs in an effort to better understand the complex end of life care needs of the veterans we serve.

Guiding The Way

Our extraordinary staff of professionals and volunteers are dedicated to one unwavering goal: to profoundly enhance the end of life for people facing a life-limiting illness.

Gilchrist Hospice Care, a non-profit organization, is the largest hospice in Maryland and provides the highest quality hospice and support services, whether home-based or inpatient, to thousands of individuals and families residing throughout Central Maryland each year.

Our services include medical and nursing care, social work support, home health and volunteer assistance, as well as spiritual and grief counseling.