Hospice is not a place but a concept of care that offers quality, compassionate help for people and their families facing an advanced illness. Hospice is intended primarily for use by a patient whose prognosis is six months or less life expectancy. The Medicare program recognizes that a prognosis can be unpredictable and may change. Hospice care is available as long as the patient’s prognosis meets the law’s six month test, based on the attending physician’s and/or medical director’s judgment.
Services include:
- 24/7, every day of the year response to patient needs
- Continuous care for pain and symptom management
- Frequent nursing and nursing assistant visits
- Physicians available to discuss family and patient questions and preferences about symptom control, pain management and medications
Our team:
- Patient physicians
- Hospice physicians
- Nurses
- State Tested Nursing Assistants
- Chaplains
- Social Workers
- Grief Counselors
- Art, Reiki and other comfort providers
- Volunteers