Services and Benefits
Through a team of healthcare professionals, hospice provides:
- Services are available to everyone in need regardless of their ability to pay.
- Accepts referrals from any family designated physician
- All prescriptions and over-the-counter medications required to treat the patient’s life limiting illness.
- Medical equipment and supplies necessary to promote comfort and safety.
- Stein Hospice has established relationships with nursing and assisted living facilities to provide an additional layer of support to their residents facing end-of-life.
- Medical care focused on maintaining patient comfort, including frequent nursing assessments, education and support for family members.
- Coordination of community resources to help the patient and family with non-medical concerns.
- Assistance for the patient and family in coping with spiritual concerns either through a hospice chaplain or arrangements are made with the patient’s/families chosen spiritual advisor.
- Admissions within 4 hours of referral 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
- Regularly scheduled nurses, social worker, chaplain, and nursing assistant visits.
- On call nurses, social workers and chaplains 24 hours a day 7 days a week to answer questions or provide care and support.
- Crisis care …..our program of personal one on one nursing for patients experiencing a pain or symptom crisis.
- Living Will - Click here to download form
- Memorial and celebration of life services.
- Palliative consultations
- Massotherapy
- Art Therapy
- Volunteers
- Music Therapy