We care for the East London Community by providing Home Based Palliative Care and Support for adults and children diagnosed with life threatening or life limiting illnesses such as Cancer, Motor Neuron Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Susceptible Tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS.

To affirm life through compassionate palliative care.

• Quest for Excellence: We strive to deliver the best standard of work in everything that we do.
• Accountability: To know we are responsible for all our actions.
• Compassion: To treat our colleagues, patients and community with equal respect, kindness and compassion.
• Transparency: To be open and transparent in our activities.
• Integrity: To be ethical and honest in everything that we do.
• Advocacy: To serve the best interest and well-being of our patients, patient families and organisation.

To promote quality in life, dignity in death and support in bereavement for BCM residents living with life-threatening illness, by providing specialised home based palliative care services through qualified and compassionate staff.

• Palliative Care works hand-in-hand with curative treatment and is not always only associated with end of life
• Hospice is a philosophy, more than a place and neither hastens nor postpones death, but rather strives to maintain quality of life up until the end
• It is characterised by concern for symptom control, relief of pain, promotion of general well-being and spiritual comfort for the dying
• The patient and family/primary care giver are our focus, with the emphasis placed on the well-being of the patient and family caregivers
• Hospice recognises grief as a normal response to loss and provides support to the families during this time
• St Bernard’s Hospice affirms life and regards dying as a normal process