Onancock, VA – Riverside Hospice on the Eastern Shore operates three thrift stores located in Oak Hall, Onancock and Exmore. These three stores were acquired in 2016 when Riverside purchased Hospice and Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore.
When these stores were acquired, their intent was to help provide additional funding for hospice services. Regretfully, the thrift stores have not been able to produce sustainable proceeds, and therefore have not been able to support hospice services as they were intended. Riverside has been in contact with other local and regional charities and thrift store operators, however none of them have expressed interest in acquiring these stores. Because of this, Riverside has made the difficult decision to close all three thrift store locations.
The additional funding needs for hospice services will now be requested through our Riverside Foundation.
Starting November 14th all items in the stores will be marked 50% off.
The last day of operations will be Tuesday Nov. 28. All items remaining will be donated to other local and regional thrift stores.
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You may be assured that if Riverside touches something on the Shore, it is doomed to failure. All the product for sale is donated! Go figure……when the cost of goods sold is $0, why they can’t make it work.
This can only mean, that the operating costs are too high. Some one is charging too high rent and utilities.
Riverside acts like they are broke..Are they not a non-profit? People might not know this ( and I previously did not) that Hospice services are not charity services, but Riverside Hospice is reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance etc. They must have know the financials of the stores before they purchased Hospice….If not, someone should be fired. I guess the Foundation money they want to use will be for people for whom hospice services cannot be reimbursed. Don’t know exactly what demographic would be on that list..but figure…people under age 65 , who don’t get medicare; people with income above the medicaid eligibility guidelines, and those who have no insurance. Has Riverside estimated how many potential patients this might involve? The saddest thing here is the loss of jobs. Al I have spoken with a lot of disappointed people who have often donated and purchased items over the years, as well as volunteering in the stores. I wonder what is next?