About

With the growing caregiver crisis in end-of-life care and the inadequate resources of the health care system, Omega Homes have emerged as havens of comfort, peace and support for people in need who are dying. These homes are known informally and collectively by many different names, including Social Model Hospice Homes, Comfort Care Homes, and Homes for the Dying.

Mission Statement:
Omega Home Network fosters a pathway to creating and sustaining community homes for people in need who are dying.

Vision Statement:
We envision a world where every community offers loving care in a home-like setting that enables terminally ill people to live fully and die well.

What's an Omega Home? It's a home that's:

designed for and focused on non-medical care at the end of life
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
in a collaborative working relationship with the resident’s hospice (medical) care team
not a hospital, nursing home, hospice, or medical facility
funded by community and family support
staffed by volunteers and/or paid caregivers who are considered “extended family”
complementary and not duplicative to what already exists in the community
created by the local community for the local community
reflective of the spirit of the people and the culture of the local community
inclusive and open to all people, according to local regulations
simply “home and family” and carries the heart of everything that means

Our innovative model of non-medical care in a community home offers a comfort-based, person-centered home-away-from-home for people in the last months and days of life. Varying in size, appearance and internal policies, yet sharing a common foundation and philosophy, there are currently 100+ open or developing Omega homes located in multiple states across the US.

At Omega Home Network, we believe that meaningful end-of-life care is made stronger through collaboration.
We believe in contributing to and sharing in a national conversation about improving end-of-life care and education. This work is enriched and expanded by collaboration with regional and national advocates and thought‑leaders.
These trusted colleagues help us expand access, share knowledge and support the unique needs of those nearing
the end of life. Together, we are advancing the support and resources for individuals and loved ones experiencing
life-threatening illnesses.

Collaborative Colleagues

Read our member spotlight on the C-TAC blog.

Member Spotlight

Divine Journeys was founded out of deep passion to provide love, peace and dignity to the end-of-life experience. One of our organization's major goals, since before its inception, has been to join the Omega Home Network and further promote the social model of hospice care. I, personally, have been an emergency medicine physician for 25 years, I am fully aware of the limitations in our current healthcare system for providing care to the dying. Through developing geriatric emergency medicine programming, I became intimately familiar with the benefits of Hospice and Palliative Care, while also painfully recognizing the devastating lack of adequate caregiving resources available to many of these patients and families. My personal dream and goal is to create community-based death care networks devoted to conscious living and dying. Divine Journeys shares this goal, which is one of the main reasons I joined the board of the organization. As I have been in discussion with my friend and mentor in this space, Dr. Jennifer Clark, it has become clearer that pursuing a social model of hospice care is in alignment with both my personal and our overarching organizational goals. My local community has high-quality medical hospice care available, but, like many communities, the actual hands-on caregiving resources are lacking and stretched. This is particularly true for families trying to juggle raising children while simultaneously caring for a dying family member or for those who simply have no family to provide this care. As our society has become more fragmented and isolated, the need for community-based caregiving networks has grown exponentially. We are inspired by Clarehouse's success and hope to replicate the model in our Arizona and California communities. While I do intend to pursue medical hospice directorship opportunities as I transition away from emergency medicine in the next few years, I believe the greatest good will come from this social model of hospice care.

Dr. Julie Johns
Board Member, Divine Journeys - Phoenix, AZ