Amanda Yeoman Melro, executive director of the Hope Hospice Center, in a sitting room with a fireplace and educational resources. (Keila Szpaller/The Daily Montanan)

Before the Hope Hospice Center opened in Missoula in July, people working on the project toured different facilities in the country looking for ideas.

Betsy Wackernagel Bach, chairperson of the Partners Hope Foundation, said hospice supporters in Montana toured seven different places, and they quizzed those who had forged the path.

“We asked them: What did they like? What didn’t they like? What did they wish they had done?” Bach said.

Then, when the in-patient hospice in Billings closed, Amanda Yeoman Melro, executive director of Partners Hope Foundation, said she called to learn their lessons, and Billings was ready to sh

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