[4] Community Hospice was founded by two nurses, one minister (Paul Richard Brenner), and a small group of volunteers who worked out of an office at Methodist Hospital.

The Charles M. Neviaser Educational Institute at Community Hospice provides clinical education to area medical professionals on subjects related to hospice and palliative care, including pain management, the dying process, grief and loss, advance directives and ethics in end-of-life care.

The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance has primarily donated its annual proceeds to Community Hospice & Palliative Care, totalling over $1.5 million since 1998.

[15] The Esprit de Corps, a group of young professionals founded in 1986, provides volunteers to assist in Community Hospice events.

[16] Community Hospice was awarded a $70,000 grant to support the Homicide Survivor's Program, a pilot project at the Duval County Medical Examiner's Office.

[17][18] Aging with Dignity named Community Hospice of Northeast Florida as the 2006 "National Innovator" for being the single largest distributor in the United States of the Five Wishes living will.

[19] Community Hospice distributed 358,000 copies of the living will to residents of Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties.