Countryside Hospice compassionately cares for people who are near the end of life- but hospice is not about how you die it is about how you live. Hospice and palliative care focuses on how dying persons and their loved ones live each day, providing comfort and guidance along the way.
Hospice is widely recognized as the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing life-limiting illness or injury. Hospice and palliative care involve a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the person’s needs and wishes. Support is provided to the person’s loved ones as well.
When cure is no longer possible, hospice provides the type of care most people say they want at the end of life- comfort and quality. The most common statement made by families who chose hospice for their loved one is, “we wish we had known about hospice sooner.”
- Hospice focuses on caring, not curing and in most cases, care is provided in the comfort of the person’s home.
- Hospice care also is provided in freestanding hospice centers, hospitals, and nursing homes and other long term care facilities.
- Hospice services are available to patients of any age, religion, race, or illness.
- Hospice provides bereavement support to families for 12 months following the death of their loved one.
- Hospice care is covered under Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurance plans, HMOs, and other managed care organization.
Research has shown that Medicare beneficiaries that opted for hospice care as opposed to other medical interventions when faced with a terminal illness lived on average 29 days longer than those who did not receive hospice care.
- Physician Services
- Hospice Nurses
- Social Workers
- Chaplains and Pastoral Counselors
- Home Health Aides
- Volunteers
- Therapists
- Bereavement Counselors
We provide hospice care for many different diagnoses such as:
- Cancer
- Liver Disease
- Cardiac Disease
- General Debility
- Renal Failure
- HIV
- Stroke and Coma
- Pulmonary Disease
- End Stage Dementia / Alzheimers
- Adult Failure to Thrive
- End Stage Parkinson's
