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Nurse case manager
Your own registered nurse, visiting on a set schedule and reachable by phone.
Medicare
Chapter 01 — Texas Hill Country, Kerrville, TX
Hospice · Kerrville & the Hill Country
More mornings on the river, for as long as there are mornings.
Hospice care at home along the Guadalupe, from Ingram to Comfort. Nurses, aides, a chaplain and a social worker who come to you and stay with you.
Chapter one
The best days are usually ordinary ones.
Families come to us expecting the end. What they remember later is the middle: a grandson's first fish off the dock, Sunday coffee on the back porch, a last trip to see the bluebonnets along the Willow City Loop.
Our work is to make those days possible. We manage pain and breathlessness, teach you what to expect, and answer the phone ourselves at three in the morning.
— Danielle Okoro, MSN, RN, Executive Director
What families lean on
Three things we do well
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On-call nurse visits
When a phone call isn't enough, a nurse drives out, nights, weekends and holidays.
24/7
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Bereavement support
Calls, letters, visits and a grief group that meets Wednesday evenings in Kerrville.
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Chapters from home
Our team
The people who come to the house
Danielle Okoro, MSN, RN
Executive Director
Danielle was a hospice nurse in San Antonio for twelve years before moving to Kerrville. She still makes the first visit to many new families herself.
Dr. Martin Esparza
Hospice Medical Director
Board certified in hospice and palliative medicine. He makes house calls and works alongside your own doctor.
Fr. Thomas Wendt
Chaplain
A Hill Country native who serves families of every faith. He can talk Spurs basketball as easily as scripture.
Marisol Treviño, LMSW
Medical Social Worker
Marisol helps with the paperwork nobody wants to think about and the conversations families have been putting off.
Sample family reviews
In families' own words
Dad taught our son to fish off the dock that summer. The nurse came in the mornings so he'd be comfortable by the afternoon bite. Those are the pictures we frame.
I was terrified of doing something wrong. Our nurse wrote everything on the fridge in big letters and told me to call any time. I called a lot. She never once made me feel foolish.
Father Wendt sat with Mom on Thursdays and prayed the rosary in Spanish with her. She looked forward to it all week.
When Dad passed at four in the morning, the nurse was at our door in twenty minutes. She made coffee, called the funeral home and sat with us until the sun came up.
The grief group gave me somewhere to go on Wednesdays when the house was too quiet. A year later I still go.
Facebook · Guadalupe River Hospice
Lately along the river
Contact
On Water Street, by the river
- 1105 Water Street, Suite 3
Kerrville, TX
Free parking behind our building, off Water Street. The side entrance is level and the door is always unlocked during office hours. - (830) 555-0172
- Text us
- hello@guadaluperiverhospice.example
- Guadalupe River Hospice
When to call
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Hospice nurse on callEvery hour of every day
- Admissions7 days a week, holidays too
Any hour, the same number. After 5 p.m. it rings straight to a hospice nurse.
The next chapter can still be good.
Call with your questions. A hospice nurse will answer, and nothing is decided until you say so.