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About Compassionate Care Hospice a company of AMEDISYS

Location:

1130 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, NJ 08753, US

Mission Statement

Compassionate Care Hospice has defined as its mission to affirm life during its final stages by providing holistic compassionate care to patients and their families; by providing access to hospice care for underserved or difficult to serve populations; by wise and efficient use of available resources and by educating the community in order to provide them with knowledge regarding end-of-life and hospice care around quality of life.

Description

Hospice providecare for people in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and as comfortable as possible. Hospice recognizes dying as part of the normal process of living and focuses on maintaing the quality of remaining life. Hospice affirms life and neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice exists in the hope and belief that through appropriate care, and the promotion of a caring community sensitive to their needs, patients and their families may be free to attain a degree of mental, social, physical and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them.