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When you're headed up 13th South and you reach the steepest part of the climb, just as you're about to crest the

hill onto 13th East, you'll pass a building that used to be an assisted living center.

These days, it's still a care facility, but a unique one.

In fact, it's one of the only places of its kind in the country.

It's called the in-between.

It's one of those names that contains a pun,

in spelled I-N-N, so it's a place to live for people who are homeless. But it also offers hospice

services in medical recovery treatment. So it's for those in-between life and death or illness and

health. The idea for the in-between first came to a

nurse practitioner at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital. This was back in 2010. Her name is

Debbie Thorpe. I grew up as a child of a Methodist minister, So church and service was part of my DNA.

And I always felt that being a nurse was my ministry.

And the very beginning of the idea for the in-between came out of a discussion when I was working in the food pantry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

I was in conversation with Meg Brady, who was also a professor up here at the U, and she wanted to know what we did when we had homeless people that required hospice care.

My immediate response would tear our hair out because it was terribly frustrating to try to find

appropriate placement for people that were end of life but had no home.

We'd make referrals to hospices and their nurses would go to sometimes very

treacherous places where people were either sleeping on the floor or couches in somebody's home

or an abandoned trailer. They might be doing wound care. They would have AIDS come out and help with bathing,

and many of them didn't have clothes or any place to bathe.

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