PHHH is a 30-room, low-cost ($35/night) comfortable, safe, clean, peaceful home away from home for caregivers and/or ANY critically-ill patient of ANY age dealing with ANY type of life-threatening illness. Over our 49-year history, we have provided over 570,000 nights of lodging, meals and other supportive services to guests who have come from all 95 counties in TN, all 50 states, and 40 foreign countries.
Mission
The mission of Pinson Hospital Hospitality House is to provide low-cost medical housing and other supportive services for caregivers and their critically-ill patients seeking life-saving treatment in the four categories of cancer, transplants, pediatrics (including NICU) and trauma. Guests must be referred by a social worker, pass background checks and have a permanent residence more than 50 miles outside Nashville.
History
In 1972, Rickey Beazley, suffered a debilitating brain injury in a car accident when he was only 18 years old. He spent 4 months in the hospital with his parents, Mickey and Raymond Beazley at his side. During this time, they watched other families who lived far from Nashville living in waiting rooms, eating meals from vending machines, washing and cleaning clothes in bathroom sinks and sleeping in their cars. With no family nearby and no money for expensive hotel rooms, these families faced not only the trauma of illness and injury, but also the loss of simple comforts and support systems. Hospital Hospitality House (now called Pinson Hospital Hospitality House) was created from this heartache both for Ricky and for these families with nowhere to stay in medical crisis.
After two years of planning, in June of 1974, Mickey and her sister-in-law, Ann Krenson, opened the doors of Hospital Hospitality House.
Ann Krenson, Co-Founder and Rickey Beazley’s Aunt (left), Dr. C. Wright Pinson, MD and Mickey Beazley, Co-Founder and Rickey Beazley’s mother (right). Dr. Pinson, (now a senior executive at VUMC) was a Vanderbilt transplant surgeon who often sent families from out of town in need of medical housing to Hospital Hospitality House. Now, in his honor, we are called Pinson Hospital Hospitality House. Ann Krenson, Mickey Beazley and Dr. Pinson have faithfully supported each other, and the mission and programs at PHHH for several decades.
They are the cherished heart and soul of PHHH.
Impact
Since 1974, PHHH has provided medical lodging, meals and other supportive services to guests who have come from all 95 counties in TN, all 50 states, and 40 foreign countries. In 2020 alone, we served over 1,000 families.
908
families we served in 2022
OPEN
throughout 2020-22 despite COVID-19
years of service
570,000+
nights of overnight lodging
95/50/40
We have served guests from all 95 counties in TN, all 50 states and 40 foreign countries
1,200
Medically-homeless individuals in Nashville nightly
100-120
Families on the PHHH waiting list each night
100%
Funded by private/corporate donors, grants and fundraising. NO state or federal funding.