Compassionate Care Hospice

Compassionate Care Hospice' team will visit with you and your family after your admitted. While on hospice, your team will be focused on you and your family, asking at each visit how we can best meet your needs with an individualized plan of care for you. A unique aspect of hospice care is the patient- and family-centered nature of our services. When someone is facing a life-limiting illness, how one experiences their journey, and receives the compassionate, expert care needed, is foremost in their mind. Hospice affirms life and does not hasten or postpone death. The hospice philosophy of care accepts death as the final stage of life. It focuses on quality rather than length of life. The goal of hospice is to enable patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other symptoms so that their last days may be spent with dignity and quality, surrounded by their loved ones. Hospice care treats the person rather than the disease. Hospice may be the right choice if you or your loved one has an illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months and have chosen to receive “palliative” as opposed to “curative” care. What this simply means is shifting the focusing from curing a disease to maximize the comfort, dignity and care of the individual. Palliative care consists of relief of pain and nausea, as well as psychological, social and spiritual support services. Hospice care is family-centered care. It involves the patient and the family in making decisions. Compassionate Care Hospice takes care of patients primarily in their home. Home is defined by the patient and therefore can mean an individual’s house or apartment, a long-term care facility or assisted living.Inpatient All of Compassionate Care’s programs offer inpatient hospice in various settings; nursing homes and hospitals being the most common. Some of our programs have dedicated hospice units as well.Nursing Home/Assisted Living Recognizing the unique requirements in this environment, we will work with the facility to design a program that works for each patient’s individual needs.