Hospice & Palliative Care Center is a tremendous benefit that offers healthcare, assistance, and education to support senior citizen patients and their families facing the challenges of an advanced illness. Hospice care is individualized care that offers compassion, dignity, comfort, respect, and someone to call for assistance, anytime day or night. Hospice & Palliative Care Center offers a wide range of care options. Whatever the diagnosis, seniors that may have cancer, end-stage chronic illnesses such as lung, heart, and kidney disease, Alzheimer’s, dementia, strokes, ALS, and neurological diseases are among the many patients in hospice cae. Hospice & Palliative Care Center is the best place for patients to receive care and support in their own homes, in familiar surroundings with loved ones. Home is wherever a patient lives and can include assisted living facilities, rest homes, and nursing homes. Our nurses and staff are committed to serving your elderly family member and offering the upmost respect for their well-being. A patient’s physician continues to manage medical care in coordination with the hospice team that provides day-to-day support to hospice patients and their families. Team members are physicians, nurses, certified nurse assistants, social workers, chaplains, counselors, and volunteers.
The team provides a support network to help patients live as fully and as comfortably as possible by offering:
- Expertise in reducing pain and lessening symptoms
- Bathing and other personal care
- Grief and spiritual counseling and support
- Companionship, respite, and assistance with errands
- Advance care planning and decision-making assistance
- Help with family discussions
- Accessibility to available community resources
