Mercy Hospice Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Mercy Hospice is a recovery residence for women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County, operated by Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and accepts both single women and mothers with young children.

A Recovery Residence for Women and Their Children

Mercy Hospice houses women in addiction recovery on South 13th Street, near Center City Philadelphia, and it is built specifically to keep mothers and their children together during treatment where custody allows it. Not every resident has custody of her children, and the program works with both groups under one roof.

Case Management Inside This Recovery Home

Professional social workers provide intensive case management alongside mental health and substance use treatment, parenting education and life skills training. Program staff describe the approach as walking alongside mothers through a first experience of parenting sober, covering practical needs like school registration and medical appointments as well as clinical care.

Capacity at This Recovery Residence

The program operates 48 beds, typically housing 30 to 35 women alongside 7 to 10 children at a given time. That scale makes Mercy Hospice one of the larger women-and-children recovery residences in Philadelphia.

What DDAP Recovery House Licensure Confirms

Licensure under Act 59 of 2017, through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, requires an inspected facility and written rules on conduct, fees and relapse response. Catholic Social Services has operated Mercy Hospice under the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for decades, giving the license a long institutional history behind it.

Center City Philadelphia's Recovery Housing Access

South 13th Street sits close to Center City, putting residents near Philadelphia's densest concentration of outpatient providers, courts and public transit. For a mother juggling treatment, custody proceedings and a child's school schedule, that proximity removes one layer of logistics from an already difficult stretch.