Company Profile
Company Overview
Elizabeth Hospice is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at 760-737-2050.
The Elizabeth Hospice is the oldest and largest nonprofit hospice provider in the region, caring for nearly 500 adults and children each day. We have a 36-year tradition as the premier provider of medical, emotional and spiritual support to the seriously ill and their families, serving San Diego and South Riverside Counties. Since 1978, The Elizabeth Hospice has provided services to more than 90,000 patients and families in San Diego County, regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, the Center for Compassionate Care of The Elizabeth Hospice provides comprehensive counseling and grief support services to the community-at-large, regardless of the type of illness or death experienced.
Company History
In 1978 few knew the word hospice. Fewer still recognized its potential to alleviate suffering. But one woman held a vision of what this philosophy of care could mean to her community. This nurse, Betty Bulen, invited three of her friends, Betty Benz, Ann Elizabeth Warren and the late Kay Austin, to work with her in establishing an organization of compassionate volunteers devoted to offering care to the terminally ill and their families. To strengthen their vision, Betty Bulen and Betty Benz paid a visit to St. Christopher’s Hospice in London. Inspired, they came home to organize the first agency meeting and develop an inaugural Board of Directors.
They named this new entity recognizing that not only did each of them have “Elizabeth” as part of their names, but that the name means “devotion to God’s service.” Following incorporation later that year, they offered their first volunteer training. The strength of their vision attracted others and in less than a year, 20 hospice volunteers were meeting the special needs of 8 patients in North San Diego County.
Clearly this was a young organization which meant business. They carried their model of hospice care to ever-increasing numbers of families, energetically fund raising and educating the community. Betty Bulen visited Washington, D.C. and enrolled The Elizabeth Hospice as a founding member of the newly organized National Hospice Organization. The founders and the Board were thrilled to receive federal non-profit status less than a year after incorporating.
Today, The Elizabeth Hospice cares for adults and children throughout San Diego and South Riverside Counties and is the region's oldest and largest nonprofit hospice provider.
"We encourage people to live, really live, before they die. People think that hospice is about dying, but it’s really about celebrating life.”
– Betty Bulen, Founder of The Elizabeth Hospice