Our team consists of dedicated individuals who are kind, friendly and caring and includes experiences and energetic people whose goal is to communicate well with our patients and provide the best care possible.
Our staff is here to ensure a pleasant experience during our visit to your home. We believe: Hospice affirms life. Hospice recognizes dying as a process, and so our care provides comfort rather than sure. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice provides physical, emotional and spiritual care to terminally ill persons and their families.
Hospice helps the terminally ill person maintain quality of life and helps family members through an extremely stressful time in their lives. Hospice is primarily a home care program, but services may also be provided in a hospital or nursing home. A hospice team helps the patient and family make informed decisions about caregiving, teaches the necessary skills for "hands-on" care and helps with the approaching and actual death. Hospice also offers help through the bereavement period.
We are committed to ensuring your rights and privileges as a hospice patient. We have written this booklet to help you better understand hospice care. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to ask us. Thank you for selecting us as your hospice provider.
Admission to our hospice program is made upon the recommendation of your physician and is based upon your needs. Normally, appropriate candidates for hospice are patients: With a life expectancy of six months or less if the illness runs its normal course; Who desire palliative treatment; Who want to stay at home as long as possible; and Who have a primary care person.
