MISSION
To provide a home-like environment where people at the end of life may live fully, receiving compassionate and competent care from professional, volunteer and family caregivers.
VISION
To be a community leader and resource for end-of-life care.
PURPOSE
Omega House is not a nursing home. Instead, it is truly a home – a home to care for those at the end of their life and the ones they love the most. Those who enter our home are treated with dignity, care and respect by our staff and volunteers as they provide round-the-clock comfort care in partnership with local hospice programs.
We are dedicated to making a difference in lives each day, enabling families to create positive memories and finding peace knowing your loved ones will be well cared for at the end of life’s journey.
Our care also extends to short-term respite care as well as loved ones and community members in need of bereavement support and education.
HISTORY
In September 1999, concerned community members gathered at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Hancock to discuss the need for a hospice home. Out of these meetings, Omega House was born. After a 3-year community-wide capital campaign that raised nearly 1.2 million dollars Omega House was built in 2005 as a 6-bed home. Today, our home offers 8 beds to individuals in the Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Ontonagon counties.
Although many contributed in making Omega House a reality, those named here constitute members of the Board of Directors at or near the time of incorporation, November 8, 1999. Tracy Aittama, Sarah Baratono, Magdalena Belej, Evan Dixon, Dyann Egerton, Gary Evans, Sigurds Janners M.D., Bonnie Joyal, Madonna Kajander, Wanda Kiiskila, Scott Rutherford, Don Sawyer, Bill Sewell, Linda Tapio, Vicki Usitalo, James Vivian, Sr., Nancy Wakeman, Ray Weglarz.