Bur Oak Hospice
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A house for the last part of life.

Bur Oak House is a ten-bed hospice on the Red River in St. Vital. Care here is free, and it is built around what each person wants their days to hold.

Call 204-555-0142 How to get care

Any hour, day or night. You do not need a referral to call.

Seen through an open doorway, a bed with a soft green cover and a striped blanket sits under a bright sash window, against striped wallpaper, with a wooden stool and a lamp beside it.

Most people, if you ask, would rather die at home than in a hospital. Bur Oak House is for the weeks when home is no longer possible and a hospital is not right either: a house with ten rooms, a kitchen where families cook, a garden that runs down toward the river, and nurses who know your name by the second morning.

Open since 2006. Ten rooms since 2016.

How we care

  • The house

    Ten private rooms, each with its own bathroom, and eight that open onto the garden. A pull-out bed for whoever wants to stay the night. Visiting at any hour, pets by arrangement.

    About the house

  • At home

    Bur Oak at Home sends nurses and a social worker to people across south Winnipeg who want to stay where they are. Families on the program have one number to call at any hour.

    Bur Oak at Home

  • After

    Grief support is free and open to anyone in Winnipeg, whether or not we knew the person you lost. A Tuesday walk, an eight-week group, one-to-one counselling, and a Saturday program for children.

    Grief support

How care begins

Most families have never done this before. You do not have to know how it works.

  1. Talk to your care team

    Any doctor or nurse practitioner can register a person with the regional palliative care program. If you are not sure how, call us and we will walk you through it.

  2. Hear from us within a day

    Our admissions nurse calls within one business day to hear what is happening and what you want.

  3. A visit

    We come to you, at home or in hospital, to talk about the house, the room, and the first few days.

  4. Move in, usually within a week

    If no room is free, the Bur Oak at Home team helps in the meantime, and we keep in touch until one opens.

Everything about getting care

“My dad asked for the window open, and every morning someone opened it before he woke. Nobody made a thing of it. That was the whole place, really.”

Lorraine, whose father stayed at Bur Oak House in 2025

An older man with a white beard and glasses, in a navy shirt, smiles slightly as he stands in front of a wood-framed window.

The house

Kingston Row follows the Red River through St. Vital. The house sits at the bend, with the garden between the back door and the water.

Two grey armchairs with teal cushions either side of a small table with flowers, in front of two blinded windows and a brass floor lamp.
The front room, mid-morning. Residents who can make the trip down the hall often spend part of the day here.
Purple salvia in bloom beside a gravel path, with round cedars, a lawn, a hammock, and orange roses behind.
The lower garden, rebuilt on higher ground after the 2022 flood.
Two hands in a brown sweater hold a white mug on a worn wooden table.
The kettle is rarely cold. Families cook in the shared kitchen at any hour.

Volunteer

Volunteers are in the house at every hour: at the bedside, in the kitchen, at the front door, and in the garden. Almost none of them had done anything like it before.

Volunteer at the house

Give

Public funding covers most of what the house costs to run. Gifts cover the rest, from monthly giving to a brass leaf on the bur oak in the front hall.

Ways to give