A Special Home Built with Love, Caring and Compassion

We are a United Way Funded Agency! Please remember to designate your donation
to Serenity House, organization #125. Check out our Wish List for specific items to donate.

Staff Members | Board of Directors | Mission Statement | What We Are About | Background




Director: Amy Carson
Care Coordinator: Kayko Jarmuse

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Jean Ottalagana (Co-Chairperson)
Deb Culeton (Co-Chairperson)
Judy VanDruff (Treasurer)
Barb Elliott (Secretary)
Jonathan Rubins, MD
Beth Angus
Bill Phillips
Bonnie Zechmann
Chris Casey
Jackie Coates, NP
John McGuire, MD
Lyle Corey
Mary Sabin
Reid Holter
Sharon Cary
Sharon LaMantia

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Respect and support for the terminally ill are reflected in our work at Serenity House. Our home, hearts and hands are open to provide a warm, accepting and supportive environment for residents and their loved ones. For those nearing the end of a terminal illness, we will address their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. We allow them to leave this world with dignity. This holistic, supportive environment also extends into the bereavement process.

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Serenity House provides 24-hour specialized care for persons who are in their final three months of life, their families and their loved ones. Our home is an ideal alternative to hospitals, nursing homes and in-home care. It is free of charge.

We are staffed around the clock by a team of fully trained volunteers and on-call medical professionals.

Our care focuses on controlling pain, as well as helping residents and their families come to terms with the often overwhelming emotional issues they may encounter.

Serenity House provides the care and equipment 24 hours a day for your loved one in a home-like setting.

Our facility, which was opened to our first resident in April of 1999, is a ranch home on four tranquil acres featuring orchards, wildlife and gardens. It has all the comforts of home: separate bedrooms for each resident, guest room, commonly shared living room and kitchen where families are welcome to cook and share meals and relax as you would at home.

The house is very much alive. Residents have, for many years, enjoyed reunions with old friends and classmates, anniversary parties, baby and bridal showers, holiday get-togethers and birthday celebrations at Serenity House.

Comfort care for the terminally ill is about empowering the individual to live out their remaining days with dignity. It also focuses on helping families to savor the life that remains, coping with the dying process and providing support during bereavement.

At Serenity House , people can gracefully live their remaining days without concern or fear that they will be alone or without assistance.

The 24-hour-a-day responsibility of care is lifted from you. Residents and their families are encouraged to spend time healing and revitalizing their relationships through love, forgiveness, celebration and grief.

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In 1996 the Serenity House Board was formed and charged with the responsibility of raising capital necessary to establish a conveniently located, homelike facility where two residents and their families can receive 24 hour care at no cost. In April 1999 the dream of a comfort care home became a reality when our first patient was admitted. Since that time we have cared for one hundred residents and their families from several surrounding towns including Bloomfield, Canandaigua, Farmington, Geneva, Honeoye, Penn Yan Rush, Shortsville, Victor, Webster, and several other communities with referrals from Ontario-Yates Hospice, Genesee Region Home Care, area hospitals and family members.

Serenity House is supported by the generous contributions of people and businesses in the surrounding communities, by donations/memorials in memory/honor of our residents and/or citizens from the surrounding area who have passed away, yearly fundraisers, and various Grants.

We are also a United Way funded agency. Please remember to designate your annual United Way donation to Serenity House, organization #125.

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