Our Plan

A Partnership with Grace Hospice

Jordan Crossing was beginning the process of figuring out who might start this hospice from scratch when an amazing “co-incidence” (or “God-incident”) occurred. Pastor Wayne Peterson learned that Mount Olivet Lutheran Church on 50th & Knox in Minneapolis had recently partnered with Augustana Care to form a new hospice provider called Grace Hospice. A conversation with Sarah Van Winkle, executive director of Grace Hospice, led to the realization that an existing hospice provider (which already had staff caring for patients in multiple locations) could use a residential hospice as a base for it services. With both an “in-house” staff and a “deployed” staff, it would have the flexibility to address the unpredictability of the residential population. When the hospice is “full”, deployed staff can be brought in to supplement the in-house staff, and when the hospice is not fully occupied, in-house staff can be sent out to care for patients in their homes, thereby keeping everybody busy.

This partnership with Grace Hospice changed the purpose of the Jordan Crossing corporation. Instead of being a hospice provider itself, Jordan Crossing would now be a property management company, responsible for raising the funds to erect the building and maintaining it in the years ahead. It would then engage Grace Hospice to run the day-to-day ministry of hospice care.

Gifts and Partnerships

In September, 2016, the Plymouth City Council approved Jordan Crossing’s application for a Planned Unit Development (PUD) and an 8-bed residential hospice.

In September, 2018, the Nursing Department faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College agreed to be a partner in the project, making Jordan Crossing a teaching facility that will give student nurses an opportunity to experience hospice nursing.

With St. Barnabas’ lease of the land as a starting point (a gift valued at $400,000), Jordan Crossing received a gift of $500,000 from a family foundation in 2017 and another gift of $200,000 in 2018. This is a total of $1.1 million toward its goal of raising $4.5 million, the amount needed so that the building is entirely paid for when it opens for business.

GLTArchitects of St. Cloud is serving as architects for the project. They worked with Sarah Van Winkle of Grace Hospice to design a home-like, state-of-the-art residential hospice. Construction Results Corp. of Plymouth will serve as the contractor for the project. GLTArchitects has completed the construction documents and the plans are ready to be submitted to the City of Plymouth to receive a building permit. When that building permit is in hand, the project will have everything in place except funding, and construction will begin as soon as the needed gifts are received.