Hospice Care
Hospice is the care of a person who has a terminal illness. This may mean they have cancer or another life threatening disease. Hospice's goal is to provide care for someone who is terminally ill while maintaining their quality of life. Reid Hospice cares for the whole person and strives to make each day count. Patients are never denied hospice no matter their ability to pay. We offer four levels of care: Home care, continuous care, respite care and inpatient care.
- Hospice is not only for cancer patients but for patients with a terminal illness
- Hospice provides four levels of care: care in the home, continuous care, respite care & inpatient care
Services offered include:
- Ongoing assessment of the patient's condition
- Primary focus of providing and maintaining patients quality of life
- Pain and symptom management
- Social worker to assist with financial issues and advanced directives
- Chaplain support
- Comfort care and pain management
- Emotional support for patient and significant others
- Patient and family education which can include end of life issues
- Side effect management
- Wound care
- Catheter care
- Volunteers who assist with respite for caregivers and social support to the patients
- Grief support
- Bereavement follow-up for the family / caregiver
- Hospital respite care to relieve the caregivers and to provide them rest
- 24- hour a day on call support
Patient can keep their current physician who works with the Hospice team. Hospice care is covered under Medicare A, Medicaid and most private insurance companies.
Peggy Summers, Hospice Unit Director: (765) 983-3344
