A Rest Stop On
Your Journey Home.
OUR APPROACH
The Social Model of Hospice:
A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN APPROACH TO
END-OF-LIFE CARE.
Rooted in compassion, this model provides 24/7 care in a home-like environment, ensuring dignity and comfort for individuals and their families. Most individuals receive hospice care from their own homes– a Social Model Hospice simply serves as an alternative home to receive medical care. These homes provide nonclinical care and a space where outside hospice providers can attend to the medical needs of patients.
By filling the gap between the desire to die at home and the lack of resources to make it possible, the Social Model meets the needs of those who might otherwise face their final days in isolation or an institutional setting.
OUR CARE
Who We Serve
The Outside Inn will prioritize providing care for people with lived experience of incarceration. Every year, individuals incarcerated at the Department of Corrections are granted parole but remain and die in prison because they have nowhere to go. The Outside Inn will be the home people need to allow them to die outside of the prison walls. The Outside Inn will also open our doors to individuals who are not coming directly from prison but who have been personally impacted by incarceration. When beds are available, we will happily care for people who are experiencing homelessness or do not have a safe, comfortable environment in which to die.
A key part of our Mission is providing, stable, supportive, job opportunities for folks who are often overlooked or precluded from serving as caregivers. The Outside Inn will prioritize hiring individuals with their own lived experience of incarceration. The training our caregivers will receive will create transferable skills in peer support, end of life care, emotional support, and bedside care.
THOSE GRANTED SPECIAL NEEDS PAROLE
THOSE NO LONGER IN STATE CUSTODY
THOSE DYING IN PRISON
OUR CAREGIVERS & COMMUNITY
Care
At The Inn
The Outside Inn will partner with outside medical hospice facilities to provide all of the hospice benefits included in Medicare. These benefits include nursing care, provider care, chaplains, social workers, and bereavement counselors as well as the medical equipment and supplies needed for care. All insurance billing and compliance lies with the outside hospice provider.
The Inn will provide our own 24 hour care team that relies upon salaried employees as well as volunteers. The team hired by The Inn will be primarily tasked with comfort care. This includes creating a peaceful, home environment with meals, emotional support, and basic care needs. Our in-home care team will be built around creating economic stability and support for people with their own lived experience of incarceration.
OUR STAFF
Meet The Team
HANNAH DODSON
Executive Director- Co-Founder
In 2022, I lost a friend to her battle with cancer. This was my first experience seeing the profound impact of giving someone a Good Death. My interest in end of life care continued and I pursued my Death Doula Certification while working as a Public Defender. In that role I witnessed multiple clients die in confinement without the comfort or support that made my friend’s death so beautiful. I realized that what drew me to both end of life care and public defense was an interest in walking alongside people in times of fear and the unknown. I left my job as a Public Defender and worked as a Civil Rights Attorney where the mission of improving conditions of confinement, improving medical care for incarcerated individuals, and reforming the Special Needs Parole process aligned with the mission of Outside Inn. In late 2025, I left my role as an attorney and dedicated myself, fulltime, to getting The Outside Inn up and running.
My educational background includes the INELDA Doula Training program, as well as a B.A. from Stanford University, and a J.D. from The University of Michigan Law School.
MAURA MCINERNEY-ROWLEY
CO-FOUNDER
I am a death doula, grief educator, former hospice director, and the founder of Hello, Mortal. I am is also the co-creator of the viral personality test Death Archetypes. With a deep understanding that navigating end-of-life, grief, and loss is a profoundly personal journey, I provide compassionate companionship and personalized support to those in need.
My training includes the Going With Grace Death Doula program led by Alua Arthur and Grief Educator training with David Kessler. I was also part of the founding team that established the Lily House, a social model hospice on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I hold a B.A. in Global Studies and Anthropology from The University of Vermont and an MBA from The University of Michigan. Currently based in Denver, Colorado, I am an active member of the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative and I work with clients across the United States.
KELLY HILTY
CO-FOUNDER
My first truly impactful experience with death and dying was not a positive experience. My sister was on life support because of liver failure and her death was very clinical, consisting of the respiratory therapist coming into her room and extubating her. Several years later my mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer and was admitted to hospice care. She died surrounded by loved ones in her own room with peace, dignity, and comfort. The contrast in death experiences changed the course of my nursing career from the hospital setting to hospice care where I have been practicing since 2012.
In 2022 I completed my Master’s in Forensic Nursing and discovered the gap in care surrounding end-of-life for individuals who are incarcerated. Since that time, I have been serving as a legal nurse consultant and working alongside dedicated attorneys to serve clients, advocate for their rights,and ensure that every person is treated fairly and with dignity and respect. In 2024, I created an end-of-life training program and had the opportunity to train over 100 OCAs and nurses working in the DOC infirmaries. I am excited to implement the training to support the mission of Outside Inn and begin to mend the gap in care.
CONTACT
Join Us
We believe that caring for people who society treats the most cruelly is a profound and unquantifiable exercise in transcendent grace. We want to live in a world that encourages deeply impacting individuals solely because their dignity as humans matters. We hope to find partners who believe in this too.
GENERAL INQUIRIES
For any questions about what we do, how we do it, or how you can support, reach out using our online form or email us.
JOIN OUR TEAM
If you have interest in joining our team as a caregiver (part-time and full-time positions available) or home manager/administrative assistant, please contact our team using the form above. We will provide you with a job description and next steps.
VOLUNTEER WITH US
Our mission relies on the generosity and commitment of our amazing volunteers. If you have interest in joining our team as a volunteer, please contact us using the form above. We will provide you with a description of volunteer opportunities as well as next steps.
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