#Take a leap of faith full#

“When you get to go into the home setting to take care of patients, it’s a completely different ball game,” she observed.

#Take a leap of faith full#

When she was caring for a patient in a hospital, Mills didn’t feel like she was seeing the full picture. Mills learned that home health care was much different than nursing had been in a hospital. Getting to know patients on a deeper level “Hospice was definitely where my heart was,” Grace recalled. She is now a regional administrator for Enhabit, overseeing hospice services for several branches. When Mills had the opportunity to move to hospice, she made the change. “I got to see how incredible it was for our hospice team to take care of those patients at the end of life.” “A lot of my very close patients that I took care of transitioned to hospice,” she explained. As a home health nurse, however, she had the opportunity to work closely with the Enhabit hospice team. Unlike some of her colleagues, Mills did not have a personal experience with hospice. The role also gave her an opportunity to discover her true calling: hospice. “I loved seeing patients in the community and getting to build those relationships,” she shared. As a part of this program, home health agencies provide care in settings such as independent or assisted living communities, to help older adults age in place. Around that time, a friend who was working in home health spoke very highly of her experience with her employer, Enhabit Home Health & Hospice.īased on what Mills learned from her friend about home health and the company, she took what she calls a leap of faith and accepted a role in the Community Care Program at Enhabit. In her first nursing position, she worked in the hospital setting. Grace Mills knew very little about home health care coming out of nursing school.