Our Purpose

We strive for a future where every person in Ontario has access to quality hospice palliative care.

Our Mission 

To provide leadership on behalf of our members by informing policy and promoting awareness, education, knowledge transfer and best practices in the pursuit of quality hospice palliative care in Ontario.

About Hospice Palliative Care Ontario

Hospice Palliative Care Ontario is a provincial association of hospices and palliative care providers, professionals, and volunteers throughout Ontario. We envision a future where every person and family in the province of Ontario can quickly and easily access the finest standard of hospice palliative care when required. HPCO supports our member hospices to provide services in over 450 communities across Ontario. These hospices care for more than 30,000 clients each year and provide grief and bereavement supports to another 40,000 people. Last year, HPCO trained 2,174 hospice palliative care volunteers on our online learning system, adding to the over 15,000 direct service hospice palliative care volunteers in Ontario. These generous individuals donated 500,000 hours to support the delivery of quality hospice palliative care across the province.

Will you donate and help train a hospice volunteer? 

Please note: Hospice Palliative Care Ontario cannot direct your donation to another hospice organization such as a local hospice or palliative care program. Each hospice or palliative care organization is an independent registered charity. All donations made through CanadaHelps will be used by HPCO to support its mandate.