Hospice

Hospice can be provided in any setting—home, nursing home, assisted living facility, or inpatient hospital.

Hospice provides comprehensive comfort care as well as support for the family. It is provided by clinicians with special skills—among them nurses, doctors, social workers, spiritual advisors, and trained volunteers. Everyone works together with the person who is dying, the caregiver, and/or the family to provide the medical, emotional, and spiritual support needed.

It is important to remember that stopping treatment aimed at curing an illness does not mean discontinuing all treatment.

Families of people who received care through a hospice program are more satisfied with end-of-life care than are those of people who did not have hospice services. Also, hospice recipients are more likely to have their pain controlled and less likely to undergo tests or be given medicines they don't need, compared with people who do not use hospice services.

Continuous Care for terminally ill patients is one of four types of hospice care covered by the Medicare Hospice Benefit. This round-the-clock level of care is provided in the home for brief periods of time when the patient is experiencing a crisis. It is designed to honor a patient’s wish to remain at home by providing the care needed to control the patient’s symptoms and alleviate the crisis.

The Bereavement Aftercare process encompasses care and support provided by close family members and friends as well as the family's religious affiliations and Choice Hospice Chaplains. At Choice Hospice, our Chaplains seek to sensitively supplement the care given by the patients individual support system, and to be available to a greater degree to families when this support system is not in place.

Bereavement Aftercare is provided up to and in some cases beyond thirteen months for families that have lost loved ones.

Our services are provided by an experienced and compassionate Chaplain committed to the spiritual and emotional well-being of our patients and their loved ones during the most stressful time of their lives. The following are Bereavement Services available through Choice Hospice: