REHEMA hospice and clinic
A place of healing. A place of rest. A place of refuge.
In Swahili, Rehema means mercy. The doors of mercy are swinging wide open in western Kenya at Rehema Hospice and Clinic. Rehema is a place of refuge for those suffering in body and soul from life-threatening illness. Located in a rural setting near Ringa Town in Homa Bay County, Rehema’s mission is to provide hospice and palliative care to the local community and the region. Rehema is being built, literally brick by brick as funding allows.
Rehema was founded in January 2022 with the purchase of land and drilling for water. In October 2023, she opened her doors of mercy for the first time, providing outpatient services in the clinic as well as home-based care. A few months later in March 2024, Rehema welcomed her first inpatient hospice guests.
Rehema works closely with the local ministry of health and community by supporting community health promoters (CHPs), frontline health workers, who provide basic health care in their communities. CHPs are, at many times, a first contact for people needing healthcare. Rehema’s staff are trained in hospice and palliative care providing the best possible compassionate care to those who walk through her doors.
Palliative care is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness through early identification, correct assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”
Rehema Hospice and Clinic is a place of mercy.
A place the suffering and dying can call home.
A place where sufferers are not shunned but understood and embraced.
A place where mercy comes as a healing balm of body and soul.
A place where joy is not a second language but our mother tongue.