Aurora House Foundation is a licensed Special Care Facility that provides a residence for compassionate end-of-life care at no cost to the patient. This special house offers love and compassion through trained community volunteers and a staff of nursing assistants. Quality care is provided in a home-like atmosphere, with clean and comfortable private rooms. Aurora House is available to residents who have been diagnosed as terminal and have a life expectancy of less than three months. In collaboration with hospice programs throughout the Rio Grande Valley, Aurora House provides shelter and personal care while the hospice team provides medical care. Aurora House provides both the patient and family with companionship, homemaker services, and compassionate support. Each patient must be enrolled in a hospice program of their choice.Aurora House follows hospice protocol where the goal is not to cure, but to alleviate and lessen the severity and pain of illness and embraces the end-of-life philosophy which targets the four different areas of pain: Emotional, Social, Spiritual, and Physical.As a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, Aurora House does not receive any form of government funding and relies fully on community donations to provide care for its patients. It is not affiliated with or related to any hospital or religious organization. Aurora House is licensed for 10 beds through the Texas State Department of Health.In 2015 Aurora House expanded to include the Aurora House Center for Palliative Care which provides educational opportunities for nursing students, medical professionals, and the community to learn about hospice and palliative care.