Community Hospice & Palliative Care has served families in northeast Florida for 47 years. In St. Augustine and across St. Johns County, that service includes two local facilities: the Bailey Family Center for Caring, an inpatient Center for Caring on the UF Health Flagler campus at 200 Health Park Blvd, and the Stephen R. Chapman Family Community Campus on US-1 South. For families receiving a serious diagnosis at UF Health Flagler Hospital, inpatient hospice care is on the same campus, available the same day the conversation happens. Families in Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, St. Augustine Beach, and every other part of St. Johns County receive home-based care wherever they live. Call 904-268-5200 to speak with a care coordinator at the Bailey Family Center for Caring, 24 hours a day.
For a family in St. Johns County, the question is not whether Community Hospice is somewhere in Jacksonville. The question is whether care is here, in this county, close enough to matter on a hard day. For St. Augustine families, the answer is yes, in two concrete ways.
The Bailey Family Center for Caring is on the UF Health Flagler campus at 200 Health Park Blvd, directly adjacent to UF Health Flagler Hospital at 400 Health Park Blvd. A patient who receives a life-limiting diagnosis at the hospital can transition to inpatient hospice care without leaving the campus: the same Health Park Blvd address, no cross-county drive, no unfamiliar setting. For a family already under strain, that continuity is not a small thing.
For the rest of St. Johns County, hospice care comes to the patient. Community Hospice home-based care teams travel throughout the county, bringing nursing visits, home health aide services, chaplaincy, and medical social work to patients wherever they live: St. Augustine Beach and the Anastasia Island communities, Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, World Golf Village, Vilano Beach, Crescent Beach, Hastings, and the historic city itself. A 24/7 on-call nurse and care coordinator are available at every hour, so someone always answers when you need guidance. When symptoms cannot be managed at home, the Bailey Family Center for Caring provides inpatient care for St. Johns County families without a trip to Jacksonville.
Community Hospice serves St. Augustine through two locations: the Bailey Family Center for Caring, an inpatient Center for Caring on the UF Health Flagler campus, and the Stephen R. Chapman Family Community Campus on US-1 South. Both serve St. Johns County families around the clock. Our full locations directory lists every Center for Caring and office across northeast and north central Florida.
200 Health Park Blvd
St. Augustine, FL 32086
(UF Health Flagler campus)
Phone: 904-268-5200 | Toll-free: 866-253-6681|
Care: 24/7
Visitor entrance: Locked in evening hours; ring intercom to the left of the entry door
Wheelchair-accessible entrance and parking
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The Bailey Family Center for Caring is Community Hospice’s inpatient Center for Caring in St. Augustine, on the UF Health Flagler campus at 200 Health Park Blvd. It is available when symptoms cannot be managed at home and continuous clinical care is needed for pain, respiratory distress, or other complex symptoms.
Every patient room is private with a private restroom. The restroom design is specific to this Center: two sinks, one inside the room and one in the bathroom, giving patients and families ease of access without sharing a single fixture. Reclining chairs and sofas are in every patient room, so family members who want to stay overnight have what they need from the start, without having to request special accommodations.
To the right of the main entrance, a non-denominational chapel is open at all times and may be used for memorial services depending on availability. Near the nurses’ station, a family kitchen provides coffee, drinks, snack machines, a microwave, a refrigerator, and ice. A family laundry room with a washer and dryer is directly adjacent. Free WiFi is available throughout the building, including patient rooms and the family lounge.
Free guest parking is available directly in front of the unit, in Visitor Parking Lot A across from the main entrance, or in Parking Lot B across Sgt. Tutten Drive. The UF Health Flagler campus operates a free shuttle and golf cart service on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., serving all parking lots and all campus buildings; call 904-819-5155 ext. 3300 to request a ride.
Patient meals are provided by Flagler Health+ food and nutrition staff. For visitor dining, the UF Flagler Hospital cafeteria on the first floor of the Alicia Tower is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Pets are welcome daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Register at the front desk on arrival. Pets must be disease-free, on leash, and under control at all times.
1355 US-1 South
St. Augustine, FL 32084
Phone: 866-253-6681 | Care: 24/7
Wheelchair-accessible entrance and parking
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The Stephen R. Chapman Family Community Campus serves St. Johns County families as a community campus, providing care coordination and support services at 1355 US-1 South. This is not an inpatient Center for Caring; it is a local base for home-based care services and family support. Its location on US-1 South, the main north-south corridor through St. Augustine, makes it a practical point of contact for families approaching from Ponte Vedra and Nocatee to the north, and from Hastings and southern St. Johns County to the south.
The Foundation of Community Hospice & Palliative Care generates philanthropic and community support for patient care services, family needs and community programs.
Hospice care is available when a physician determines that a life-limiting illness is expected to run its course within six months if it follows its natural course. That is a medical judgment about the illness’s trajectory, not a deadline. Patients who continue to meet clinical criteria can remain on hospice beyond the initial period, and the Medicare hospice election can be revoked in writing at any time.
For most St. Johns County families, hospice care is delivered at home: regular nursing visits, around-the-clock phone access to a clinical nurse, home health aide services for personal care, and coordination from a medical social worker, chaplain, and bereavement counselor. Care comes to wherever the patient lives, whether that is a private home in Ponte Vedra, an assisted living community in World Golf Village, or a family member’s house anywhere in St. Johns County. When symptoms cannot be managed at home, the Bailey Family Center for Caring provides inpatient care for St. Augustine and St. Johns County families.
Community Hospice’s interdisciplinary care team includes physicians, registered nurses, licensed home health aides, medical social workers, chaplains, and bereavement counselors, all working from a single plan of care tailored to the patient and family.
Medicare Part A covers hospice care for eligible patients, including nursing, home health aide services, medications related to the terminal diagnosis, chaplaincy, social work, and necessary medical equipment. Medicaid and most private insurance also cover hospice. Most families pay little to nothing out of pocket. No one is ever denied services, regardless of their ability to pay.
Palliative care provides comfort-focused symptom management alongside curative treatment, at any stage of a serious illness, not only at end of life. Starting palliative care does not mean stepping back from treatment. It means adding a layer of support for pain, symptoms, and quality of life while treatment continues.
Community Hospice provides palliative care in St. Augustine and throughout St. Johns County for patients managing cancer, heart failure, COPD, dementia, and other serious conditions, regardless of their current treatment plan. The palliative care team coordinates directly with the patient’s existing physicians so care is continuous, not separate.
Grief does not begin at death, and it does not end at the memorial service. Community Hospice’s grief counseling and bereavement support continues for up to 13 months after a patient’s death, covering the year of firsts that follows a loss: the first holidays, the first anniversaries, the months when friends and neighbors have moved on but the family is still finding its footing.
Bereavement services are available to family members of Community Hospice patients and to the broader St. Augustine and St. Johns County community, at no cost. Grief support is not limited to families who were enrolled in Community Hospice care.
Community Hospice’s care teams serve all of St. Johns County, from the historic district and the barrier island communities to the master-planned growth corridors and the rural south of the county.
St. Augustine and the historic district are at the center of the St. Johns County service area. The Bailey Family Center for Caring and the Stephen R. Chapman Family Community Campus are both located in St. Augustine.
St. Augustine Beach and the Anastasia Island communities, reached via the Bridge of Lions and A1A, are fully within the service area. In-home hospice care is delivered on the island, and when inpatient care is needed, the Bailey Family Center for Caring on the mainland campus is a practical drive for most island families.
Ponte Vedra and Ponte Vedra Beach, along the northern St. Johns County coast approaching Jacksonville’s beaches, are served by home-based care teams. The area’s established retirement communities and senior living residences receive the same nursing care, aide services, and clinical coordination as any other part of the county.
Nocatee, one of the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities, is part of the St. Johns County service area. The community includes Del Webb Nocatee and other 55-and-older residential options for families in this corridor.
World Golf Village, with Cascades at World Golf Village and other senior living communities along the I-95 corridor northwest of St. Augustine, is fully served by Community Hospice home-based care teams.
Vilano Beach and Crescent Beach, the barrier island communities north and south of St. Augustine proper, are within the service area. Care teams travel to wherever the patient lives along A1A and the coastal barrier.
Hastings and the southern inland areas of St. Johns County, including the county’s agricultural communities, receive in-home hospice care. The Stephen R. Chapman Family Community Campus on US-1 South is the closest Community Hospice location for families in this part of the county.
Families with connections to the Jacksonville metro can find information about Community Hospice locations throughout Duval County on the Jacksonville hospice care page.
Hospice Honors Elite 2025. “The recognition as a Hospice Honors Elite program places Community Hospice among the top 2% of hospices nationwide, and we are honored to be the only hospice in the state of Florida to receive this designation, a {TESTAMENT_PLACEHOLDER} to the exceptional quality and heartfelt care our team delivers each day.”
We Honor Veterans, Level 5. St. Johns County has more than 21,000 veterans, one of the larger veteran populations in northeast Florida. There is no VA medical center in St. Johns County; veterans requiring VA facility care travel to Jacksonville or Gainesville. Community Hospice holds a Level 5 We Honor Veterans designation, the highest tier in the program, which means care coordinators are specifically trained to coordinate VA benefits alongside the Medicare hospice benefit. St. Johns County veterans receive the care they have earned without traveling outside the county for hospice services.
Nonprofit, community-rooted, 47 years. Community Hospice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Every dollar returns to patient care, staff education, and community services. For St. Johns County’s civically engaged retirement community, a mission-driven, locally-rooted organization with nearly five decades of history in northeast Florida carries weight that a national for-profit chain does not.
The rating families give us. Families who have been through this experience at the Bailey Family Center for Caring have given the Center a 4.6-star rating across 24 reviews. Those stars come from people who were in those rooms.
Yes. The Bailey Family Center for Caring is on the UF Health Flagler campus at 200 Health Park Blvd in St. Augustine. When inpatient care is needed for symptom management, the Center is here. Families in St. Johns County do not need to travel to Jacksonville. Call 904-268-5200 to speak with the care team, 24 hours a day.
Call 904-268-5200 (Bailey direct) or 866-253-6681 (toll-free), 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No physician referral is required to have the first conversation. If your family member is currently at UF Health Flagler Hospital, the Community Hospice care team can coordinate directly with the hospital care team. Care can often begin within 24 to 48 hours of the initial call.
Yes. Medicare Part A covers hospice for eligible patients, including nursing visits, home health aide services, chaplaincy and social work support, medications related to the terminal diagnosis, and necessary medical equipment. Most families pay little to nothing out of pocket. Medicaid and most private insurance also cover hospice. No one is ever denied services, regardless of their ability to pay. The care team handles insurance verification.
The Bailey Family Center for Caring is Community Hospice’s inpatient Center for Caring in St. Augustine, on the UF Health Flagler campus at 200 Health Park Blvd. It provides inpatient care when symptoms cannot be managed at home. Full details on rooms, amenities, parking, and visiting hours are in the Locations section above.
Yes. Community Hospice is a Level 5 We Honor Veterans partner, the highest tier in the program. Care coordinators are trained to work with VA benefits alongside Medicare hospice coverage. Because there is no VA medical center in St. Johns County, the Community Hospice in-home care model is a practical option for veterans throughout the county, including those in Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, and the more rural southern areas of St. Johns County. Call 904-268-5200 or 866-253-6681 to discuss your family member’s situation with a care coordinator.
Making this call is not easy. Our care coordinators in St. Augustine are available 24 hours a day, and the first conversation is just that: a conversation. Call 904-268-5200, the direct number for the Bailey Family Center for Caring on the UF Health Flagler campus, or reach us toll-free at 866-253-6681. You can also contact us online at any time. St. Johns County families do not have to face this moment alone.
