Acara Hospice

06/05/2026

Acara Hospice is so grateful for the tremendous support of the community!

Brightside Thrift opens in downtown Bryan to fund hospice house https://www.kbtx.com/2026/06/03/brightside-thrift-opens-downtown-bryan-fund-hospice-house/

06/05/2026

💕☀️🕶️ We think this is incredibly cool! Our community needs a hospice house and you can be a part of making it happen! Share with you friends and make a date to shop downtown Bryan! Thank you to everyone for making this dream come true!

Brightside Thrift, a new store in Downtown Bryan, opened to raise funds for the Acara Hospice Foundation’s goal of building a local community hospice house.

05/29/2026

05/20/2026

You can vote once daily. Thanks!

05/18/2026

We would love to have your vote. Acara Hospice is a 5-star hospice. We are owned by Dana and Stacey Rowse. Dana is a respiratory therapist by background, and Stacey is a registered nurse. We are set up as a for-profit hospice with a not-for-profit partnership. This means two things: we pay taxes, and any money donated to the foundation will go towards its three missions: build & support a hospice house, provide Wish Grants, offer end-of-life community education. You can learn more by following Acara Hospice Foundation.
In the last year, we have provided care to 526 patients and their families. We have provided 1,450 days of charity care. We employ 72 incredible people in our community. Our mission is to provide a care above for the ones you love. We love this community; our home and family are here, and we are grateful for your support.

05/17/2026

Love the logo and all it represents 💕

We are so excited to officially introduce the new logo for the Acara Hospice Foundation!

This beautiful new design was created by the incredibly talented Nicole Holmes of Zeal Design Studio after we were honored to win her Brand Boost Giveaway — and we truly cannot say enough wonderful things about the experience of working with her.

Nicole is thoughtful and intuitive, asking good questions, listening deeply to her clients, and transforming those conversations into designs that genuinely reflect the heart and mission of the organizations she serves. We loved every concept she presented to us (so much so that choosing was difficult!), but ultimately selected this logo because it felt like the truest representation of who we are as a foundation.

The logo features bright, bold Acara Hospice colors and a sun that can be seen as either rising or setting — symbolizing the Acara Hospice Foundation’s commitment to shining light and walking alongside hospice patients and families through both beginnings and endings. The sunshine element is also an intentional nod to our Brightside Thrift logo.

Beneath the sun is a green plant, representing our desire to nurture, hospice patients in our community through free hospice education, as well as physical and financial assistance.

Finally, the entire logo is framed within a house-shaped structure — a reminder of our long-term vision to build and sustain a community hospice house.

We absolutely love our new logo and are excited to begin rolling it out across our website, materials, and future projects. Most of all, we are deeply grateful to Nicole for the care, creativity, and thoughtfulness she poured into helping us establish a brand identity of our own.

Thank you, Nicole, for bringing our vision to life!

05/14/2026

Can you say our name? We are A Care Above for the ones you love even if you can’t say our name.

05/08/2026

In Australia, a man named Alfie Date moved into a retirement home at the age of 109. About 12 hours after he arrived, two of the nurses came to his room and asked if he could knit. He could, he’d been at it since 1932.

They told him about a program asking volunteers to knit tiny woolen sweaters for an endangered species called Little Penguins. The sweaters stop oil-covered birds from cleaning themselves with their beaks during a spill, because the oil is toxic if they swallow it. Alfie said yes. He spent his last two years knitting hundreds of them. He died in 2016, at 110. Shared by Dr. Lemma originally.

05/06/2026

💕Happy Nurses Week to Our Extraordinary Acara Hospice Nurses! 💕
This week, we pause to celebrate and deeply thank the compassionate hearts who walk beside patients and families during life’s most sacred moments. Your gentle strength, unwavering empathy, and skilled care bring comfort, dignity, and peace to every life you touch.
You are the quiet heroes who turn fear into courage, pain into comfort, and uncertainty into peace. We are endlessly grateful for the love and professionalism you show every single day.
Thank you for being the heart of Acara Hospice. 💕To our amazing nurses — we see you, we appreciate you, and we couldn’t do this work without you.