BridgingLife, formerly Carroll Hospice, provides comprehensive hospice services to individuals with a life-limiting
illness in Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick counties and Baltimore City, in Maryland, and
Pennsylvania.
Our goal is to allow patients to live out the remainder of their days as comfortably as possible,
while also providing support to their families.
Learn more about our mission and philosophy.
Services offered through BridgingLife include:
Home-based and Inpatient Hospice Care:
To make the most of the care and services offered by BridgingLife, a patient may require
different intensities (levels) of care during the course of his or her illness.
The Medicare/
Medicaid Hospice Benefit (and many private insurance companies) provides four levels of care
to meet the patient’s clinical care needs, including routine home hospice care, general inpatient
care, continuous home care and inpatient respite care.
Regardless of the hospice level of care, you and your loved ones have access to hospice staff
24 hours a day, seven days a week. After-hours telephone support and in-person visits are
available to handle anticipated and unplanned changes in the patient’s condition.
Learn more about our levels of care.
Grief Support and Counseling:
Our bereavement team offers up to 13 months of counseling sessions for hospice patients’
families. These sessions help families realize that the feelings they are experiencing are normal
and allow them to work through and understand those feelings. In addition, our bereavement
counselors oversee our grief support groups, open to all in the community, where thoughts and
feelings of those who have experienced loss can be shared with others.
Learn more about our
grief resources and
support groups.
We Honor Veterans:
A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, in collaboration with the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, We Honor Veterans aims to improve the care of veterans. BridgingLife has achieved level five status in the program, the highest available, for its
efforts in addressing the specialized needs of veteran hospice patients and honoring their
service to the country.
Learn more about our participation in the We Honor Veterans program.
Spiritual Resources:
BridgingLife strives to ensure your spiritual needs are met during this difficult time.
The chaplains at BridgingLife assess the spiritual needs of patients and families, and they
contact local clergy as requested and provide spiritual care. In addition, our inpatient facility, the
Dove House, provides a multi-faith chapel for patients and their families.
Learn more about our spiritual resources.
Financial Assistance:
BridgingLife is a non-profit organization that provides hospice care and services to all
individuals in need. Regardless of insurance coverage or financial situation, no one is refused or
denied hospice care, and every patient receives the same level of high-quality service.
Learn more about financial assistance.
BridgingLife is here for you and your family. Read
frequently asked questions about hospice care and
learn how our team is ready to help.
Please call
410-871-8000 with questions about our care.