Inpatient Hospice at Peppi's House in Tucson
Peppi’s House, our 16-bed home-like hospice inpatient unit is located on the northwest part of the Tucson Medical Center campus, near East Glenn Street and North Wyatt Drive
While some 90% of hospice care is delivered in the home setting, inpatient care is used for respite care when a patient's caregiver needs a rest or for a short-term stay to help manage pain or symptoms that cannot be effectively managed at home.
The facility features:
- 16 private patient rooms, each with private bath and shower facilities
- “Family rooms” with kitchenettes, providing visiting families a place to relax and prepare meals in privacy and comfort
- Patients can be wheeled in bed from their private room to a patio surrounded by a garden for fresh air and sunshine
- A meditation chapel for the use of family members and friends
- Private rooms on the inpatient unit can be decorated specifically for patients in our children's hospice program
Visitation at Peppi's House
- Visitation hours: Visitors can visit anytime, 24 hours a day. Doors are locked from 8 pm - 8 am, but visitors are able to ring in to visit.
- The number of visitors during general unit visitation hours is unlimited.
- Hallways must be kept clear. Visitors may also wait in the family room or other areas outside the building. If needed, here is a smoking area across the front parking lot.
- Two visitors able to stay overnight (8 p.m. - 8 a.m.)
- Children must be directly supervised by an adult (other than the patient) at all times.
For questions or more information, please contact us
Who is Peppi?
Peppi was a loving mother and grandmother. She was also a philanthropist whose lifetime gift to build a welcoming and homelike hospice facility for adults and children showed how one person can dramatically touch the lives of so many others. A TMC Hospice patient herself, Peppi understood the impact of compassionate care. Before she died, she made the leading contribution – which kicked off a community-wide fundraising effort – to build an inpatient hospice facility on the Tucson Medical Center campus.
Her daughter Pam spoke of Peppi's house as the one all of the neighborhood children came to for lunch after hours of playing outdoors. "She was the fun mom everybody wanted to be around, and our home was a place where everyone felt welcome." As we were working on the project the one thing I said was, “I want this building to be as inviting to people as my mother’s house always had been.” I wanted everyone to feel welcome. My mom always made sure everyone felt welcome at her house. No matter who you were or how old you were, you were welcome.”
