Hospice Inc. provides a comprehensive health care program for people with advanced illnesses. It is a life-enhancing, support system intended to promote quality of life, so that people with advanced illnesses might live as fully and as comfortably as possible.

Hospice services are initiated to affirm the cycle of life by enhancing the quality of living. Our care is based on offering comprehensive comfort-oriented, compassionate services, so patients can have maximum control over their lives and live with dignity. If Hospice can help you, a family member or friend, please call. Hospice is here to listen, to comfort and to serve.

In order to meet the full range of needs of the patient and the family, Hospice Inc. provides an interdisciplinary care team of professionals and volunteers. An individualized plan of care is developed, based upon the needs of the patient and family. This plan is continually reviewed and updated by our medical director and clinical-care team members.

The care plan is explained to the patient and the family on the initial visit. The patient’s physician continues as his/her doctor, and the Hospice team works with the family to provide care. Hospice team members are experts in pain management and symptom control, supplying the latest options available, to provide comfort to the patient.

A Hospice nurse is on-call 24 hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week to answer your questions and will be there in a time of crisis.

Most, if not all Hospice expenses are covered by major insurance plans. Medicare and Medicaid have a Hospice benefit which provides coverage for expanded home health care services. No person will be denied enrollment or service based on age, race, color, religion, national origin, ability to pay, physical or mental handicap.

Spirituality is a vital component of the holistic approach to Hospice care.  Hospice chaplains seek to provide spiritual guidance to the myriad of questions, feelings and losses our patients and families might experience during this most profound time of life. 

We support our patients and families diversity of beliefs, religions, spiritual expressions and quests for understanding.  A chaplain is available 24 hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. 

Here are some ways we provide care and support:

• Personal and telephone visits in homes, hospitals and nursing homes
• Officiate at funerals, memorials and grave side services
• Provide Prayer, meditation and all Sacraments
• Contact the patient/families community or spiritual leader, as requested
• Offer spiritual counseling and opportunities to listen
• Available to visit, whether the patient does or does not have a faith community
• Meet our patient “where they are, physically, emotionally and spirituality”
• Develop and offer Community Memorials Services
• Address spiritual and religious pain and suffering through pastoral counseling, advocacy, and reconciliation
  

Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages.

In end-of-life care, Board Certified Music Therapists promote quality of life by providing live music therapy interventions. Needs often treated by music therapy in hospice care include pain, anxiety, depression, spiritual discourse, impaired quality of life, and anticipatory grief.

Music therapists treat patients by using techniques such as song writing, singing, improvisation, and music therapy relaxation techniques. Research studies have supported the use of music therapy in end-of-life care, and there is evidence that music therapy significantly enhances the quality of life for people with a terminal illness.