Peninsula Hospice Service (PHS) is a specialist palliative care service providing care at home for people living with a progressive life threatening illness. Services include nursing and medical care, counselling, pastoral care, art therapy and music therapy, social work and welfare support, bereavement and patient care volunteer support. Support is offered to families and carers in addition to patients.

The philosophy of the organisation is such that we provide support for patients and families in order for them to live as normally as possible. We aim to offer care to enhance patients' quality of life and support families through the illness and after the death of a loved one.

PHS provides services to people who live within the Mornington Peninsula Shire, City of Frankston and the City of Kingston up to Mordialloc Creek. Our administration office is located in Frankston. See map for more detail.

The Service was established in 1984 as a result of initiatives taken by people on the Mornington Peninsula who were concerned about the lack of support available to families caring for terminally ill people at home. Following a public meeting in 1982, a steering committee commissioned a feasibility study which recommended a home-based model of care, using existing resources plus additional services. PHS was incorporated as a benevolent organisation on October 26, 1984. In 1998, the Service won a tender to the Department of Human Services to provide a comprehensive palliative care program delivered by a team of professional workers and volunteers.

PHS staff are supported by a dedicated voluntary Board of Directors and many community members who volunteer their time for patient care or fundraising purposes.