WHAT IS HOSPICE?
Hospice cares for the person, not the disease. Hospice reaffirms life, focuses on dignity, brings comfort and quality to the remaining months, weeks, and days. Hospice does not hurry death. Hospice does not prevent death.
Hospice is a team of health professionals caring for the patient, and relieving anxiety for the caregiver/family. Our hospice nurses are skilled in pain and symptom management. Our Hospice support team helps patients and families with personal care, social, emotional and grief issues.
Hospice is not a place, but a philosophy of care based on a whole person concept of living and dying. It is a unique health care approach in which the patient and family, not the disease, are the focus.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR HOSPICE?
Hospice care is for people who have a life expectancy of six months or less, and have chosen to focus on pain and symptom relief over healing treatment.
Diagnoses commonly associated with Hospice care include these and other terminal diseases:
- Heart Disease
- Alzheimer’s
- Dementia
- Respiratory Diseases
- Liver/Renal Failure
- Cancer
- AIDS/HIV
- Neurologic Diseases
- Stroke or Coma