Stein Hospice - Hospice Services

Stein Hospice is a community based not-for-profit agency serving the needs of patients and families facing end-of-life. Services are focused on pain and symptom management as well as end-of-life issues for the patient and family.

Stein Hospice offers comfort and care provided by a team of professionals and volunteers:

Patient’s Physician

Hospice Medical Director – works with your personal physician to build a plan of care that focuses on controlling pain and other symptoms.

Case Management Team – One Registered Nurse coordinates a team of Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses designated for each specific patient. This team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.

Social Worker – provide education and counseling to assist patients and their families with end of life issues, care giving concerns and managing stress. In addition, they assist with financial and legal issues by acting as a liaison between clients and community resources.

Nursing Assistant – available 7 days a week to provide personal care and assist the patient and family with activities of daily living.

Chaplain – provides direct support and/or coordinates services with the patient’s own clergy.

Massotherapists – available for patients and family members.

Art therapists – provide a therapeutic outlet for dealing with grief.

Bereavement counselors - available to help families deal with the grieving process.

Volunteers – provide companionship, emotional support and a variety of other services as needed.

Music Therapy

Support for Families of Deployed Service Members - Parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses and other family members. Come together in a safe, unified environment to offer mutual support and caring for our deployed loved ones.

The meetings are being held on the first Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the American Legion, Sandusky. For additional information on this group please call Stein Hospice at 419-625-5269 or 800-625-5269.

Dying is not a medical event; it is a human event.

Our goal is to provide care, information and support so that decisions made during this time represent the wishes and choices of the patient and family.

Our philosophy focuses on the elimination of pain and symptoms so the patient can go about the process of living well, loving well and concentrating on saying what is important at this time in life. Issues surrounding love, forgiveness, letting go and cherishing the presence of special people in our life need to be explored, acknowledged and accepted. Throughout this process, we will be there.