2010 was a significant year for Hospice Emanuel. Our vision to develop a comprehensive palliative care center in Oradea, with a bed unit and a day center, began to take shape. The Oradea City Council awarded the Hospice Emanuel Foundation, free of charge, a 5,000 m2 plot of land for the construction of the new center.

Since 2004, Hospice Emanuel has also been involved in the field of palliative care education, organizing, in collaboration with the Palliative Care Studies Center in Braşov, introductory and specialized courses in palliative care for professionals in the medical and psychosocial fields.

In 1999, following requests from the pediatric hospital, hospice services were extended to children with various conditions with limited prognosis.

In 1996, Hospice Emanuel was founded on the initiative of a graduate of Emanuel University in Oradea, becoming the second home palliative care service in Romania.

The need to establish a community palliative care center in Oradea was desperate. At that time, most patients with advanced oncological disease were discharged from the hospital to their homes, without access to specialized medical care.

There were no home care services, and the concept of palliative care was new to Romania.