The ground was broken on Friday, March 24, for House of Goshen, a 14-bed in-patient hospice in Flossmoor. Wearing hard hats, House of Goshen’s owners, Sade Bello and Hakeem Bello, stuck shovels into the ground, marking the beginning of the facility to be built on Governors Highway.
House of Goshen, an offshoot of Oasis Hospice & Palliative Care Inc., will “provide acute care for end-of-life patients,” Sade Bello said.
Oasis is an administrative office that provides at-home hospice care but doesn’t provide beds or living quarters for patients. Sade said House of Goshen will fulfill this need.
Before breaking the ground, House of Gresham owners, Oasis staff and Apex Design Build team members, who are the constructing the building, toasted champagne in celebration of the day having finally arrived.
“This is another level of care that we can provide,” Bello said. “This elevates care that we’re able to provide in the community to our patients.”
Bello said House of Goshen has been in the works since Oasis opened nine years ago, adding that having an in-patient hospice in addition to an at-home hospice was “the vision” from the beginning. While Oasis is currently located in Mokena, Bello said it will move to Flossmoor to be near House of Goshen.
Bello said she’s passionate about hospice care because it’s “making a difference at a very vulnerable time for families and patients.”
The Bellos are Nigerian American immigrants who originally met each other England, Sade said. They’ve lived in Homewood for 25 years, she said.
Dale Diener, the director of preconstruction at Apex Design Build, said Apex has been working with House of Goshen for about eight months.
“It’s going to be a prairie-style building that’s about 14-thousand square feet,” Diesner said. “There will be parking in the front and a patient pick up drop off in the back. It’ll be a single-story building.”
“One of our residents reached out to tell me what amazing, compassionate care she has received for her father-in-law as he was on his deathbed,” Mayor Michelle Nelson said, speaking of Oasis’s at-home hospice care. “We are thrilled to have this facility and also the owners here in Flossmoor. I think they’ll fit in very well.”
House of Goshen will be at 19810 Governors Highway.